Romola (Penguin Classics)

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a b Bonaparte, Felicia (1979). The Triptych and the Cross: The Central Myths of George Eliot's Poetic Imagination. New York: New York University Press.

There are other minor irritants – such as the feeble illustrations, which are mostly borrowed from cheap Victorian editions of the novels. Yet Carlisle has produced a richly considered study that brings one close to the heart and mind of a great writer and a wise soul. Levine, Caroline, and Mark W. Turner, eds. 1998. From author to text: Re-reading George Eliot’s Romola. London: Ashgate. Showalter, Elaine (1999). A Literature of Their Own. Writers in Their Time. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00476-5. Bonaparte, Felicia. 1979. The Triptych and the Cross: The Central Myths of George Eliot’s Poetic Imagination. New York: New York University Press. His influence has spread in many directions, but as far as the first book of Romola is concerned, its general emphasis is laid on a phase of its influence, most to his renown, the the advancement of Greek learning. The complex SavonarolaIf you do not want us to use your data for our or third parties you will have the opportunity to withhold your consent to this when you provide your details to us on the form on which we collect your data. This edition in Senate House Library is from Bernhard Tauchnitz’s Collection of British Authors, a series begun in 1841 ‘to promote the literary interest of my Anglo-Saxon cousins, by rendering English literature as universally known as possible beyond the limits of the British Empire’. Eliot appeared in the Tauchnitz series in the 1860s alongside Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Margaret Oliphant, Mrs Henry Wood and other popular writers.

There was nothing “open” or provisional about her ménage, however. Rigorously identifying herself outside her writings as “Mrs Lewes” (rather than Mary Ann Evans, the name she was christened with), Eliot can sound sanctimonious in her pronouncements about monogamy and her condemnation of “light and easily broken ties”. She made her choice, and fortunately her leap proved a very successful one – Lewes may have been “tactless, vain and a little vulgar” (as a contemporary called him), but he also made an unfailingly loyal, kindly, protective and cheerful partner, who negotiated Eliot’s depressions sensitively and whose tastes and interests she shared. His successor, Cross, positively worshipped her.Romola (1862–63) is a historical novel written by English author Mary Ann Evans under the pen name of George Eliot set in the fifteenth century. It is "a deep study of life in the city of Florence from an intellectual, artistic, religious, and social point of view". [1] The story takes place amidst actual historical events during the Italian Renaissance, and includes in its plot several notable figures from Florentine history. contains chapter after chapter of description and political exposition that doesn't move the plot forward even an inch, Whereas 6,000 copies of The Mill on the Floss had sold within the first two months of publication, it took a whole year to sell 1,714 copies of Romola, and by September 1865, it was being remaindered. Yet the book’s very atypicality renders it interesting.