Reception of George Eliot in Europe

Elinor Shaffer is a Fellow of the British Academy, (Hon.) Professor, University College London, UK, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the Director of Research and Series Editor of the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, of which The Reception of George Eliot in Europe is the twenty-first volume. She is also author of 'Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem: the Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature (1980), which begins with Coleridge and concludes with a study of Daniel Deronda; author of the Introduction to the Everyman Middlemarch; and "The Sound of Grass Growing": Eliot in Weimar', a lecture to the Goethe Society. She is a founder-member of the British Comparative Literature Association and founder-editor of Comparative Criticism. Catherine Brown is Head of the English Faculty and Senior Lecturer in English at the New College of the Humanities, London, UK. She is the author of The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare (2011), which considers the nature of comparison per se using the case studies of George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, Lev Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, and D.H. Lawrence’s

Begun in 2002, Bloomsbury's "The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe" series offers comprehensive, erudite coverage of geopolitical or translation contexts for individual authors. This volume on how George Eliot was received across hostile, friendly, or historically shifting borders over a tumultuous 150 years addresses numerous questions: Who cared that "he" was a woman? Who didn't? Who published her? Which works? When? In English or translation? How good were the translations? How many copies sold? Read in libraries? How much political, social, or literary favor or hostility appears in the texts—or the margins? The essays vary in length, depth, density, and variety of authorship, method, and style, but readers favoring a particular geography or work will find surprises. Eliot was sensitive to social stratification, so this reviewer found the essays on the shifting geopolitical contexts of Germany and former Soviet bloc countries the liveliest and most layered. Italians of course fixated on Romola—but who knew that Hollywood exploited both romantic Gish sisters, Lillian and Dorothy, to make it into a 1924 blockbuster? The volume includes a vast bibliography. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty.

• Series Editor’s PrefaceElinor ShafferAcknowledgementsList of ContributorsAbbreviationsTimeline Catherine Brown and Elinor ShafferIntroductionElinor Shaffer and Catherine BrownNorthern EuropeGermany1. The Reception of George Eliot in Germany during her LifetimeGerlinde Röder-Bolton2. George Eliot in East, West and Reunified Germany, 1949-2013 Annika Bautz Netherlands3. George Eliot in the Netherlands Diederik van WervenScandinavia4. “Spirit of the Age(s)”: The Reception of George Eliot in Sweden Git Claesson Pipping and Catherine Sandbach Dahlström5. George Eliot’s Reception in Denmark Ebbe Klitgård6. George Eliot in Norway: The Enthusiasm that Petered OutMarie Nedregotten SørbøSouthern EuropeFrance7. The Reception of George Eliot in France Alain Jumeau Italy 8. The Reception of George Eliot in Italy: 1868 to the Present Maria-Luisa Bignami9. The Early Italian Reception of RomolaFranco Marucci10. Romola in England and Italy. With Timeline of RomolaFrancesca Bugliani Spain11. George Eliot in Spain María Jesús Lorenzo-ModiaCatalunia12. George Eliot in Catalonia: The Long and the Short of ItJacqueline Hurtley and Marta Ortega Sáez Eastern EuropeRussia 13. The Reception of George Eliot in Russia: The Start that Determined the Paradigm Boris Proskurnin 14. George Eliot in the Soviet Union and Post-Soviet Russia (1917-2014)Natalya V. GorbunovaBulgaria15. George Eliot in BulgariaVesela KatsarovaCzech Lands16. An Unspeakable Journey: Czech and Slovak Reception of George Eliot Zdenek BeranPoland17. The Reception of George Eliot in Poland Ilona DobosiewiczHungary18. The Hungarian Reception of George EliotMihály Szegedy-MaszákRomania19. George Eliot in RomaniaAdina CiugureanuGreece20. The Reception of George Eliot in Greece Georgia Farinou-MalamatariBibliographyIndex