George Eliot and Schiller: Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse

ISBN-13: 9781138724242 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 200 str.

Deborah Guth

Opis

This title was first published in 2003. Deborah Guth here explores the substantial evidence of the importance of the playwright and philosopher's thought to Eliot's novelistic art. Guth demonstrates the relationship of Schiller's work to Eliot's plotting of moral vision, the tensions in her work between realism and idealism, and her aesthetics. She contends that the immense continental underpinnings of Eliot's writing should lead us to re-situate her beyond national boundaries, and view her as a major European, as well as English, writer.

Recenzje

'... reading Eliot through Schiller with the help of this study will prove a welcome antidote to seeing her work purely in the English context.' Journal of European Studies

Spis treści

Contents: Intertextuality and cross-cultural discourse; 'Our divine Schiller': contexts; The heroism of the common man: Adam Bede and Schiller's Wilhelm Tell; Passionate morality and The Mill on the Floss; The idealist and the realist: Romola; Narrative ambivalence in Middlemarch and Felix Holt, the Radical; The aesthetics of sympathy; Bibliography; Schiller's works; Index.

O autorze

Deborah Guth