George Eliot's 'The Lifted Veil'

ISBN-13: 9781032183602 / Miękka / 2023 / 238 str.

Franco Marucci

Opis

The premise of the present book is that GE’s oeuvre is a compact macrotext where themes, motifs, patterns and cultural and personal archetypes recur with variations, and that ‘The Lifted Veil’ functions as the linchpin of this oeuvre.

Recenzje

"This is a thoroughly engaging, beautifully written account of one of George Eliot's least known works of fiction. Marucci places the story not only in the context of George Eliot's life and other writings, but also in the wider literary context, from German Romantic tales of the supernatural to the "American Gothic" of Poe and Hawthorne. He adds richly to our understanding and appreciation of this mysterious work"

-Prof. Rosemary Ashton, Emeritus Quain Professor of English Language and Literature at University College London, UK.

"This thoroughgoing analysis of George Eliot's disturbing novella sets 'The Lifted Veil' in a number of different contexts both familiar and unfamiliar. This is certainly the most concentrated study yet of a somewhat neglected work".

-Prof. Gillian Beer, King Edward VII Professor Emeritus, University of Cambridge, UK.

Spis treści

Introduction

CHAPTER I

‘Restless weary wanderings’

Apprenticeship

The road to ‘The Lifted Veil’

CHAPTER II

The title

The epigraph

Narration, metanarration, technique

Times, names, places

‘Full of German lyrics’

Prevision

The religious trail

A Jewish epiphany?

Bertha in Geneva and Vienna

CHAPTER III

The two cultures

The mesmeric theme

Tasso

The poisoning woman

The blood transfusion

CHAPTER IV

The aftermath

The road to 'Daniel Deronda#

‘The Lifted Veil’ - The 1878 Text

O autorze

Franco Marucci is a retired professor of English at the universities of Siena, Florence and Venice 'Ca’ Foscari'. His main publications in English include The Fine Delight that Fathers Thought: Rhetoric and Medievalism in Gerard Manley Hopkins (Washington 1994), History of English Literature (Oxford 2018–2019, in 8 volumes subdivided into 18 Books), and Authors in Dialogue: Comparative Essays in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century English Literature (Oxford 2020). As a creative writer he is the author of the novels Pentapoli (Florence 2011) and Altomare (Rome 2020).