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George Eliot and Italy

George Eliot and Italy

Thompson, A.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0312176511
ISBN13: 9780312176518
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Feb 11 1998
Pages: 243
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.82
Language: English
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.

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