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Zusatztext An interesting account of the reception of Eliot's work across Europe ... We find much insight on Eliot's creative progress and intellectual background. Informationen zum Autor 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. Vorwort Leading international scholars survey the reception of Eliot's work throughout Europe, including film and television adaptations. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Spai...
