George Eliot and Italy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312176518)

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 Eliot 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.

Author: A. Thompson
ISBN-10: 0312176511
ISBN-13: 9780312176518
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/11/1998
Pages: 243
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.80w x 0.88d