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1 online resource (230 pages) |
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Routledge Revivals |
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Routledge revivals.
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; Editors' Note; Introduction; I Rethinking the Text; 1 George Eliot v. Frederic Leighton: Whose Text Is It Anyway?; 2 The Texts of Romola; II Rethinking the Heroine; 3 Mapping Romola: Physical Space, Women's Place; 4 'Telling the Whole': Trauma, Drifting and Reconciliation in Romola; 5 From Romola to Romola: The Complex Act of Naming; III Rethinking Authority; 6 George Eliot Martyrologist: The Case of Savonarola; 7 Power and Persuasion: Voices of Influence in Romola |
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8 The Prophetic Fallacy: Realism, Foreshadowing and Narrative Knowledge in Romola9 'An Imperceptible Start': The Sight of Humanity in Romola; 10 Angels and Archangels: Romola and the Paintings of Florence; Figures; Notes on Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
First published in 1998, this volume proposes to shift the critical emphasis from a canonical author to her uncanonical text - from George Eliot to her novel Romola - and contends that this choice both broadens the range of interpretive possibilities and brings them into sharper focus. The editors invited a variety of critics to put their different critical models to work on Romola and the results are fertile and suggestive: among the issues explored here are the domestic politics of marriage, the relationship between narrative and epistemology, the materiality of the text, the novel's relation to nineteenth-century narratives of martyrdom, and the gendering of space. Such theoretical eclecticism, when focused on a common reference point, necessarily opens out into a dialogue among critical and interpretive models. Theory throws light onto Romola, just as Romola throws light onto theory |
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Print version record |
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Romola
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Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 -- In literature
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Italy
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 |
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Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498 |
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English fiction -- Italian influences
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English fiction -- Italian influences
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Literature
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Florence (Italy) -- In literature
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Italy
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Italy -- Florence
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Turner, Mark W
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| ISBN |
9780429762710 |
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0429762712 |
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9780429427015 |
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0429427018 |
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