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The negative historical judgment given to George Eliot’s ‘The
Lifted Veil’ amounts nowadays to a gross critical blunder, and in
the last three decades the story has been firmly reinstated in
Eliot’s major canon. The premise of the present book is that
George Eliot’s oeuvre is a compact macrotext where themes,
motifs, patterns and cultural and personal archetypes recur with
variations, and that ‘The Lifted Veil’ functions as the
linchpin of this oeuvre. A sequential approach to the story is
authorized by the use of a mimetic enunciation that simulates a
gradual ‘definition’ of events, places, and characters as they
have appeared to the narrating ‘I’ in the course of time until
the moment of the enunciation. Contextualizing ‘The Lifted
Veil’ means placing it within Eliot’s oeuvre and against the
background of Victorian mid-century fiction; in a further meaning,
seeing it as intersecting various contemporary genres and
subgenres, such as that of the European and American ‘literature
of the veil’, that of the archetypal icon of the femme fatale,
that of Wilkie Collins’s ‘dead secret’ novels. The most
significant facet that critical literature on ‘The Lifted Veil’
has tended to overlook is however the encrypting of the experience
of a failed religious conversion and the foreshadowing of the
search for a spiritual and racial identity of Daniel Deronda, the
hero of Eliot’s final novel.
The negative historical judgment given to George Eliot's 'The
Lifted Veil' amounts nowadays to a gross critical blunder, and in
the last three decades the story has been firmly reinstated in
Eliot's major canon. The premise of the present book is that George
Eliot's oeuvre is a compact macrotext where themes, motifs,
patterns and cultural and personal archetypes recur with
variations, and that 'The Lifted Veil' functions as the linchpin of
this oeuvre. A sequential approach to the story is authorized by
the use of a mimetic enunciation that simulates a gradual
'definition' of events, places, and characters as they have
appeared to the narrating 'I' in the course of time until the
moment of the enunciation. Contextualizing 'The Lifted Veil' means
placing it within Eliot's oeuvre and against the background of
Victorian mid-century fiction; in a further meaning, seeing it as
intersecting various contemporary genres and subgenres, such as
that of the European and American 'literature of the veil', that of
the archetypal icon of the femme fatale, that of Wilkie Collins's
'dead secret' novels. The most significant facet that critical
literature on 'The Lifted Veil' has tended to overlook is however
the encrypting of the experience of a failed religious conversion
and the foreshadowing of the search for a spiritual and racial
identity of Daniel Deronda, the hero of Eliot's final novel.
For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact
[email protected] (Retail Price: GBP100.00, $151.90). 'Franco
Marucci's History of English Literature is unique in its field.
There is no other book that combines such erudition and authority
in such a compact format. An indispensable work of reference.' - J.
B. Bullen, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford History of
English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of
English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first
century. This reference work provides insightful and often
revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon.
Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical,
historical and intellectual context for each author. Volume 8
continues with the 1920s and the 1930s, when the Depression, the
Spanish Civil War, Fascist dictatorships, and the threat of a
second war challenged apolitical Modernism. Poets led by Auden,
novelists like Orwell and figures such as Lawrence of Arabia
defined the period. By the end of the Second World War, a realist,
satirical or comic tradition resurfaces in the novel, while in
poetry the affirmation of a pre-war neo-Romantic vein, especially
with Dylan Thomas, is reacted against by various movements that
lead poetry back to the common man. Two important years are 1953,
when Waiting for Godot by Beckett is staged, and 1956, when Look
Back in Anger by Osborne gives life to the 'angry' novel and
theatre. Extensive discussions not only of writers now become
classics (Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Heaney, Hill and Ted Hughes)
but also of other leading ones (such as Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis
and Ian McEwan) are included.
For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact
[email protected] (Retail Price: GBP100.00, $151.90). 'Franco
Marucci's History of English Literature is unique in its field.
There is no other book that combines such erudition and authority
in such a compact format. An indispensable work of reference.' - J.
B. Bullen, Visiting Fellow, Kellogg College, Oxford History of
English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of
English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first
century. This reference work provides insightful and often
revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon.
Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical,
historical and intellectual context for each author. Volume 8
continues with the 1920s and the 1930s, when the Depression, the
Spanish Civil War, Fascist dictatorships, and the threat of a
second war challenged apolitical Modernism. Poets led by Auden,
novelists like Orwell and figures such as Lawrence of Arabia
defined the period. By the end of the Second World War, a realist,
satirical or comic tradition resurfaces in the novel, while in
poetry the affirmation of a pre-war neo-Romantic vein, especially
with Dylan Thomas, is reacted against by various movements that
lead poetry back to the common man. Two important years are 1953,
when Waiting for Godot by Beckett is staged, and 1956, when Look
Back in Anger by Osborne gives life to the 'angry' novel and
theatre. Extensive discussions not only of writers now become
classics (Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, Heaney, Hill and Ted Hughes)
but also of other leading ones (such as Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis
and Ian McEwan) are included.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. Volume 7 is dedicated to the four main
figures of English Modernism: T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, James
Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. Volume 7 is dedicated to the four main
figures of English Modernism: T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, James
Joyce and Virginia Woolf.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. Volume 6 addresses the literature of the
'Victorian twilight' (1870-1921), including the novels of Hardy,
poetry of Swinburne, drama by Yeats and Shaw, and views from abroad
by Kipling and Conrad.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. Volume 6 addresses the literature of the
'Victorian twilight' (1870-1921), including the novels of Hardy,
poetry of Swinburne, drama by Yeats and Shaw, and views from abroad
by Kipling and Conrad.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. Volume 6 addresses the literature of the
'Victorian twilight' (1870-1921), including the novels of Hardy,
poetry of Swinburne, drama by Yeats and Shaw, and views from abroad
by Kipling and Conrad.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. Volume 5 focuses on the fiction of the early
and mid-Victorian period, including works by Dickens, Thackeray,
Trollope, the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and
Meredith.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. Volume 5 focuses on the fiction of the early
and mid-Victorian period, including works by Dickens, Thackeray,
Trollope, the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and
Meredith.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. Volume 5 focuses on the fiction of the early
and mid-Victorian period, including works by Dickens, Thackeray,
Trollope, the Bronte sisters, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot and
Meredith.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and
often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary
canon. Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical,
historical and intellectual context for each author. Volume 4
begins with a focus on the pivotal function of religion in the
mid-nineteenth century and explores the resulting oscillation
between Romantic escape, sceptical solipsism and social
responsibility in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Tennyson, Browning, Clough and Matthew Arnold. The aegis of
religion was only broken by the advent of Pre-Raphaelitism. This
trajectory is reflected in a series of well-known enigmatic
masterworks by the Rossettis.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and
often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary
canon. Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical,
historical and intellectual context for each author. Volume 4
begins with a focus on the pivotal function of religion in the
mid-nineteenth century and explores the resulting oscillation
between Romantic escape, sceptical solipsism and social
responsibility in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Tennyson, Browning, Clough and Matthew Arnold. The aegis of
religion was only broken by the advent of Pre-Raphaelitism. This
trajectory is reflected in a series of well-known enigmatic
masterworks by the Rossettis.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and
often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary
canon. Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical,
historical and intellectual context for each author. Volume 1
begins by discussing Anglo-Saxon literature before focusing on the
three major Middle English poets of the late fourteenth century:
Gower, Langland and Chaucer. It then engages with the
sixteenth-century prose romances of Sidney, the epic and lyrical
poetry of Spenser, and Donne's love and religious poems. Full
coverage is devoted to the legendary fifty-year blossoming of the
Elizabethan theatre (excluding Shakespeare, the object of Volume
2), from Kyd and Marlowe up to Jonson, Webster, Middleton, Ford and
Shirley. The final part addresses the sixteenth-century prose works
of Lyly, Greene and Nashe, homiletics by Hooker and others, and
Elizabethan travel literature and historiography.
For ordering the hardcover version of this book, please contact
[email protected] (Retail Price: GBP90.00, $135.90). History of
English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of
English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first
century. This reference work provides insightful and often
revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary canon.
Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical,
historical and intellectual context for each author. Volume 1
begins by discussing Anglo-Saxon literature before focusing on the
three major Middle English poets of the late fourteenth century:
Gower, Langland and Chaucer. It then engages with the
sixteenth-century prose romances of Sidney, the epic and lyrical
poetry of Spenser, and Donne's love and religious poems. Full
coverage is devoted to the legendary fifty-year blossoming of the
Elizabethan theatre (excluding Shakespeare, the object of Volume
2), from Kyd and Marlowe up to Jonson, Webster, Middleton, Ford and
Shirley. The final part addresses the sixteenth-century prose works
of Lyly, Greene and Nashe, homiletics by Hooker and others, and
Elizabethan travel literature and historiography.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and
often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary
canon. Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical,
historical and intellectual context for each author. Volume 1
begins by discussing Anglo-Saxon literature before focusing on the
three major Middle English poets of the late fourteenth century:
Gower, Langland and Chaucer. It then engages with the
sixteenth-century prose romances of Sidney, the epic and lyrical
poetry of Spenser, and Donne's love and religious poems. Full
coverage is devoted to the legendary fifty-year blossoming of the
Elizabethan theatre (excluding Shakespeare, the object of Volume
2), from Kyd and Marlowe up to Jonson, Webster, Middleton, Ford and
Shirley. The final part addresses the sixteenth-century prose works
of Lyly, Greene and Nashe, homiletics by Hooker and others, and
Elizabethan travel literature and historiography.
History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume
survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early
twenty-first century. This reference work provides insightful and
often revisionary readings of core texts in the English literary
canon. Richly informative analyses are framed by the biographical,
historical and intellectual context for each author. Volume 4
begins with a focus on the pivotal function of religion in the
mid-nineteenth century and explores the resulting oscillation
between Romantic escape, sceptical solipsism and social
responsibility in the poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
Tennyson, Browning, Clough and Matthew Arnold. The aegis of
religion was only broken by the advent of Pre-Raphaelitism. This
trajectory is reflected in a series of well-known enigmatic
masterworks by the Rossettis.
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