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Overview
This study considers George Eliot's novels in relation to Dante and to nineteenth-century Italian culture during the Italian national revival and shows how these helped shape her fiction. Thompson argues that Eliot was able to draw selectively on a powerful Risorgimento mythology of national regeneration and that her engagement with the work of Dante Alighieri increases steadily in her later novels, where the Divine Comedy becomes a sustaining metaphor for Eliot's meliorist vision and for her theme of moral growth through suffering.
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- ISBN-13: 9780333694565
- ISBN-10: 0333694562
- Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
- Publish Date: December 1997
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.04 pounds
- Page Count: 243
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