George Eliot U. S. - Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Perspectives (Hardcover)

George Eliot U.S. demonstrates the complex and reciprocal relationship between George Eliot's fiction and the writings of her major American contemporaries, including Nathaniel Hawthorne. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Erner-son. The book also traces Eliot's influence on subsequent American fiction. The introductory section raises methodological questions concerning influence and intertextuality and addresses the mutual reception of European and American social and cultural discourses in order to illuminate culturally motivated divergences and convergences in the authors' presentation of gender, race, and national and ethnic alterity. The book's main body discusses Eliot's and the American writers' depiction of domestic social discourses on gender, religion, and community, and analyzes their depiction of the cultural alterity of Italy. It also focuses on Eliot's and Stowe's different attitudes toward race (and nation building), and discusses the parallels between the kabbalistic passages of Daniel Deronda and American trnascendentalist thought. The study concludes by tracing Eliot's influence on the conception of gender and social life in works by later writers such as Cynthia Ozick and John Irving. Monika Mueller teaches America and English literature at the University of Cologne.

General

Imprint:	Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2005
First published:	May 2005
Authors:	Monika Mueller
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-8386-4055-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions > Women In Power > Books
LSN:	0-8386-4055-9
Barcode:	9780838640555

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