George Eliot and Italy

副标题: Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento

ISBN: 9780312176518

出版社: St. Martin's Press

出版年: 1998-01

页数: 256

定价: USD 80.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

This study considers George Eliot's novels in relation to Dante and to nineteenth-century Italian culture during the italian national revival and shows how these helped shape her fiction. Thompson argues that Elliot was able to draw selectively on a powerful Risorgimento mythology of national regeneration and that her engagement with the work of Dante Alighieri increases steadily in her later novels, where the Divine Comedy becomes a sustaining metaphor for Eliot's meliorist vision and for her theme of moral growth through suffering.