George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento.

Yearbook of English Studies | January 1, 2001| | Copyright 
 
George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from 
Dante to the Risorgimento. By Andrew Thompson. Basingstoke: Macmillan; 
New York: St Martin's Press. 1998. x+243 pp. [pound]42.50.

On the first page of this book, whose title promises so much, the author explains that it is not 'primarily a book about George Eliot in Italy'; rather, it is about George Eliot's engagement, in her journalism, letters, diaries, and above all her fiction, with the work of Dante Alighieri and with the nineteenth-century Italian cultural and political revival, the ...

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