George Eliot's 'The Lifted Veil': A Sequential and Contextual Reading

ISBN-13: 9781032156422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 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.

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).