The Reception of George Eliot in Europe

by Elinor Shaffer (Editor), Catherine Brown (Editor)

Overview

George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880) was one of the most important writers of the European nineteenth century, as well as a pioneering translator of challenging and controversial Continental thinkers, and an influential editor and essayist. Although such novels of provincial life as Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch have seen her characterised as a thoroughly English writer, her reception and immersion in the literary, intellectual and political life of Europe was remarkable. Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Reception of George Eliot in Europe is the first comprehensive and systematic survey of Eliot's place in European culture. Exploring Eliot's deep knowledge of German literature and thought, her galvanizing influence on women novelists and translators in countries as diverse as Sweden and Spain, her travels in Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Czech Lands, Italy, and Spain and her friendship with leading figures such as Mazzini, Turgenev, and Liszt, this study reveals her full stature as a cosmopolitan writer and thinker. A film of her Italian Renaissance novel Romola was one of the first to circulate in Europe.

Including an historical timeline and a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources and translations, The Reception of George Eliot in Europe is an essential reference resource for anyone working in the field of Victorian Literature or the European nineteenth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441128546
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/11/2016
Series:	The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	512
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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


Elinor Shaffer, FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, has published on Romantic and Victorian literature, is author of 'Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School of Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature, edited the annual journal Comparative Criticism, and most recently has contributed to Samuel Butler: Victorian Against the Grain.


Catherine Brown is Head of Faculty and Senior Lecturer in English Literature at New College of the Humanities, London, UK. She is the author of The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare, is an Anglo-Russian comparatist, and is Vice-President of the DH Lawrence Society.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface
Elinor Shaffer

Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Timeline
Catherine Brown and Elinor Shaffer

Introduction
Elinor Shaffer and Catherine Brown

Northern Europe
Germany
1. The Reception of George Eliot in Germany during her Lifetime
Gerlinde Röder-Bolton

2. George Eliot in East, West and Reunified Germany, 1949-2013
Annika Bautz

Netherlands
3. George Eliot in the Netherlands Diederik van Werven
Scandinavia
4. “Spirit of the Age(s)”: The Reception of George Eliot in Sweden
Git Claesson Pipping and Catherine Sandbach Dahlström

5. George Eliot's Reception in Denmark
Ebbe Klitgård

6. George Eliot in Norway: The Enthusiasm that Petered Out
Marie Nedregotten Sørbø

Southern Europe
France
7. The Reception of George Eliot in France
Alain Jumeau

Italy
8. The Reception of George Eliot in Italy: 1868 to the Present
Maria-Luisa Bignami

9. The Early Italian Reception of Romola
Franco Marucci

10. Romola in England and Italy. With Timeline of Romola
Francesca Bugliani

Spain
11. George Eliot in Spain
María Jesús Lorenzo-Modia

Catalunia
12. George Eliot in Catalonia: The Long and the Short of It
Jacqueline Hurtley and Marta Ortega Sáez


Eastern Europe
Russia
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. Gorbunova

Bulgaria
15. George Eliot in Bulgaria
Vesela Katsarova

Czech Lands
16. An Unspeakable Journey: Czech and Slovak Reception of George Eliot
Zdenek Beran

Poland
17. The Reception of George Eliot in Poland
Ilona Dobosiewicz

Hungary
18. The Hungarian Reception of George Eliot
Mihály Szegedy-Maszák

Romania
19. George Eliot in Romania
Adina Ciugureanu

Greece
20. The Reception of George Eliot in Greece
Georgia Farinou-Malamatari

Bibliography
Index