George Eliot, European novelist
By: John Rignall
Series: The nineteenth century series
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781409422341; 9781409422358
Subjects: Europe; Literature; Knowledge; In literature; Travel; English literature; European influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The importance of Europe; title: "Electric" France and "old" Germany; title: The idea of travel; title: European landscapes and the violence of history; title: Balzac and "the delineation of quiet provincial life"; title: Middlemarch, Madame Bovary, and the dangers of diffusion; title: Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane and the elegiac strain; title: European culture and the Jewish diaspora in Daniel Deronda; title: Daniel Deronda and the French novel; title: Nietzsche and anticipations of modernism.