George Eliot and Europe

John M Rignall is Emiritus Reader at Human Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at University of Warwick.

’Unravelling the complexity of Eliot’s engagement with European culture is the primary intention of this volume and it is what makes this collection so worthwhile for Eliot scholars and readers.’ George Eliot Review

• Contents: Introduction; What George Eliot saw in Europe: the evidence of her journals, Margaret Harris; Cultural synthesis in George Eliot's Middlemarch, Hans Ulrich Seeber; George Eliot and the world as language, Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth; George Eliot, George Henry Lewes, and comparative anatomy, Nancy Henry; The miserable marriages in Middlemarch, Anna Karenina, and Effi Briest, Barbara Hardy; Mr Dagley's midnight darkness: uncovering the German connection in George Eliot's fiction, Nancy Cervetti; George Eliot and the Germanic ’musical magnus’, Delia da Sousa Correa; Daniel Deronda and allegories of empire, Derek Miller; ’The interest of Spanish sights’: from Ronda to Daniel Deronda, Bonnie McMullen; ’Animated nature’: The Mill on the Floss, Beryl Gray; From reality to fiction: benefits and hazards in continental education, Linda K Robertson; Renaissance and risorgimento in Romola, Tom Winnifrith; Greek scholarship and renaissance Florence in George Eliot's Romola, Lesley Gordon; ’Too intensely French for my taste’: Victor Hugo as read by George Eliot and George Henry Lewes, Shoshana Milgram Knapp; George Eliot, Balzac and Proust, John Rignall; Playing with shawls: George Eliot's use of Corinne in The Mill on the Floss, Gill Frith; Index.