George Eliot, Judaism and the Novels: Jewish Myth and Mysticism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333963814)

This is the first study to argue that Jewish Mysticism influenced all Eliot's novels and not just her Jewish novel, Daniel Deronda, and leaves the reader with a very different George Eliot from that assumed by most previous criticism. Though previous studies have attempted to qualify the still-dominant view that George Eliot is firmly as part of the realistic tradition, this study goes further by demonstrating that a cohesive mythic structure with its basis in Jewish mysticism is identifiable in her fiction. Providing helpful background and factual information about the Golem and other aspects of Kabbalah, this work will appeal to anyone interested in the myth of the Golem, the re-writing of Victorian culture from a Judaic perspective, and George Eliot studies in general.

Author: S. Nurbhai,K. Newton
ISBN-10: 0333963814
ISBN-13: 9780333963814
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/18/2001
Pages: 220
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.02lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.60w x 0.76d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2002 pg. 1586