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The premise of the present book is that GE's oeuvre is a compact macrotext where themes, motifs, patterns and cultural and personal archetypes recur with variations, and that 'The Lifted Veil' functions as the linchpin of this oeuvre.
Table des matières
Introduction
CHAPTER I
‘Restless weary wanderings’
Apprenticeship
The road to ‘The Lifted Veil’
CHAPTER II
The title
The epigraph
Narration, metanarration, technique
Times, names, places
‘Full of German lyrics’
Prevision
The religious trail
A Jewish epiphany?
Bertha in Geneva and Vienna
CHAPTER III
The two cultures
The mesmeric theme
Tasso
The poisoning woman
The blood transfusion
CHAPTER IV
The aftermath
The road to 'Daniel Deronda#
‘The Lifted Veil’ - The 1878 Text
A propos de l'auteur
Franco Marucci is a retired professor of English at the universities of Siena, Florence and Venice 'Ca’ Foscari'. His main publications in English include The Fine Delight that Fathers Thought: Rhetoric and Medievalism in Gerard Manley Hopkins (Washington 1994), History of English Literature (Oxford 2018–2019, in 8 volumes subdivided into 18 Books), and Authors in Dialogue: Comparative Essays in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century English Literature (Oxford 2020). As a creative writer he is the author of the novels Pentapoli (Florence 2011) and Altomare (Rome 2020).
Résumé
The premise of the present book is that GE’s oeuvre is a compact macrotext where themes, motifs, patterns and cultural and personal archetypes recur with variations, and that ‘The Lifted Veil’ functions as the linchpin of this oeuvre.
