The Reception of George Eliot in Europe

by Shaffer, Elinor; Brown, Catherine; Shaffer, Elinor

• ISBN13: 9781441190222
• ISBN10: 1441190228
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-02-11
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880) was one of the most important writers of the Victorian period, as well as an important translator and essayist. Although such novels of provincial life as 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, and her friendship with leading figures such as Mazzini, Turgenev, and Liszt, this study reveals her full stature as a cosmopolitan writer and thinker.

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.

Author Biography

Elinor Shaffer, FBA, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, has written the Introduction to the Everyman Middlemarch, written the study of Daniel Deronda in ‘Kubla Khan’ and The Fall of Jerusalem: the Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature 1770-1880, is the author of Erewhons of the Eye: Samuel Butler as Painter, Photographer and Art Critic, co-edited The Reception of Coleridge in Europe, and contributed to Samuel Butler: Victorian against the Grain.

Catherine Brown is Senior Lecturer at the New College of the Humanities, London, UK. She is the author of The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare (2011).

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface Elinor Shaffer
Contributors
Timeline
Editors' Introduction Elinor Shaffer and Catherine Brown
1. George Eliot ‘s German Reception: Her Translations from German, her Novels, Poems and Essays Gerlinde Roeder-Bolton
2. George Eliot and Lewes in Germany: Personal Contacts with Salons, Scholars and Writers Gerlinde Roeder-Bolton
3. Switzerland and English Women Novelists TBC
4. George Eliot's Scandinavian Reception (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian) Catherine Sandbach-Dahlstrom, Git Claesson Pipping and Marie Nedregotten Sorbo
5. The Dutch George Eliot Diederik L. Van Werven
6. George Eliot's Slow Journey into France Alain Jumeau
7. The Italian Reception of George Eliot: Romola in Florence Marialuisa Bignami
8. George Eliot and the Nineteenth-century English Novel in Spain Maria Jesus Lorenzo Modia
9. The Impact of English Women Writers in Portugal TBC
10. George Eliot in Poland Ilona Dobosiewicz
11. The Czech George Eliot Martin Prochazka
12. Turgenev and Tolstoi: George Eliot and Russian Writers Catherine Brown and Boris M. Proskurnin
13. The Film and TV Versions of Eliot's Novels and Stories TBC
Index