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George Eliot and Schiller Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse
By Deborah Guth
Copyright 2003
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2003. Though Friedrich Schiller enjoyed prominent literary standing and great popularity in nineteenth century literary England, his influence has been largely neglected in recent scholarship on the period. With George Eliot and Schiller: Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse, Deborah Guth explores the substantial evidence of the importance of the... Read more
Contents: Intertextuality and cross-cultural discourse; 'Our divine Schiller': contexts; The heroism of the common man: Adam Bede and Schiller's Wilhelm Tell; Passionate morality and The Mill on the Floss; The idealist and the realist: Romola; Narrative ambivalence in Middlemarch and Felix Holt, the Radical; The aesthetics of sympathy; Bibliography; Schiller's works; Index.
Biography
Deborah Guth
'... reading Eliot through Schiller with the help of this study will prove a welcome antidote to seeing her work purely in the English context.' Journal of European Studies
