George Eliot and Schiller : intertextuality and cross-cultural discourse
An exploration of the substantial evidence for the importance of Friedrich Schiller's thought on George Eliot's novelistic art. It demonstrates the relationship of Schiller's work to Eliot's plotting of moral vision, the tensions in her work between realism and idealism, and her aesthetics.
189 p : ports ; 23 cm.
9780754606390, 0754606392
1170217025
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.