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Florence (Italie) Politique et gouvernement 1421-1737 Dans la littérature.
University of St. Andrews. Library. Hargreaves Collection.
England Social life and customs 19th century Fiction.
LITERARY CRITICISM European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Silas Marner
This novel argues George Eliot's most profound and utopian vision of the position of women. Romola's patient subservience to her scholar-father, her unhappy marriage and her spiritual awakening take place in Renaissance Florence.
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"Presents George Eliot's 1862 novel about Romola, a woman who, having grown up subservient to her scholar-father, and endured an unhappy marriage, has a passionate intellectual and spiritual awakening in Renaissance Florence." *** "One of George Eliot's most ambitious and imaginative novels, 'Romola' is set in Renaissance Florence during the turbulent years following the expulsion of the powerful Medici family when the zealous reformer Savonarola rose to control the city. At its heart is Romola, the devoted daughter of a blind scholar, married to the clever but ultimately treacherous Tito. Her husband's duplicity in both love and politics threatens to destroy everything she values, forcing her to break away and find her own path in life. Described by Eliot as 'written with my best blood, ' the story of Romola's intellectual and spiritual awakening is a compelling portrayal of a Utopian heroine.
Romola an historical novel
Romola ... A new edition
Impressions of Theophrastus Such : jubal and other poems
Clarendon edition of the novels of George Eliot
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Romola [Impressions of Theophrastus Such]
Romola. [In Italian. The translator's preface signed: Emilia Franceschini.]
Romola : Silas Marner
Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and religious turmoil, Eliot's novel blends vivid fictional characters with historical figures such as Savonarola, Machiavelli, and the Medicis. When Romola, the virtuous daughter of a blind scholar, marries Tito Melema, a charismatic young Greek, she is bound to a man whose escalating betrayals threaten to destroy all that she holds dear. Profoundly inspired by Savonarola's teachings, then crushed by the religious leader's ultimate failure, Romola finds her salvation in noble self-sacrifice.
Romola
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Romola; with a life of George Eliot by Mathilde Blind
Romola. [A novel]
Romola : illustrated
Romola. With illustrations by Sir Frederick Leighton
Romola ; Silas Marner
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Romola [and] Silas Marner
Psychological fiction
Ramola always occupied a special place in George Eliot's own affections, Looking back at the end of her career she remarked 'I felt some wonder that anyone should think I had written anything better'. The copy text for the Clarendon edition is the serialization in the Cornhill Magazine (July 1862-August 1863), emended to incorporate authorial revisions in the first edition in book form (1863), the Illustrated edition (1865), and the setting copy and proofs of the Cabinet edition (1877-8). A number of manuscript readings are also restored, where it seems likely that the Cornhill compositor misread the handwriting. Changes and deletions in the manuscript are recorded in the apparatus, along with rejected variants from post-Cornhill printings. Drawings on George Eliot's unpublished journals and notebooks, the introduction gives a comprehensive account of the genesis, composition, and publishing history of the novel: her two visits to Florence; her prodigious preparatory research before she began writing; her negotiations with the publisher George Smith, who offered her the astonishing sum of 10,000 pounds for the book; her correspondence with Frederic Leighton, who illustrated the novel for the Cornhill; and the persistent ill-health and depression that afflicted her throughout the period of composition. Since its first appearance, Romola has perplexed many of George Eliot's admirers by the range and density of its historical references. Here, in a series of unusually extensive notes, the sources of these allusion are traced and their significance explained. The result is to re-establish the novel as one of the very greatest of her artistic accomplishments - in Henry James's words, 'on the whole the finest thing she wrote'.
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Presents George Eliot's 1862 novel about Romola, a woman who, having grown up subservient to her scholar-father, and endured an unhappy marriage, has a passionate intellectual and spiritual awakening in Renaissance Florence.
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Romola : an Italian romance
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Victorian-era novelist George Eliot (the pen name of female writer Mary Anne Evans) is best known for her multi-layered takes on nineteenth-century British society, such as the masterpiece Middlemarch. She takes on a similarly ambitious task in the engaging tale Romola, albeit one that is set in Renaissance Italy rather than her own era. This historical novel adroitly captures the social upheaval and cultural ferment that arose during this remarkable period.
When Tito Melema meets Romola, the daughter of a blind scholar, he quickly makes it his goal to marry her. For her part, Romola is enchanted by Tito during their courtship, but soon after they marry, she discovers life with Tito is more difficult than she imagined. Set in fifteenth-century Florence, Romola is a delightful departure from English author George Eliot's typical depictions of nineteenth-century English society, and is notable for being Eliot's only work of historical fiction. Romola was Eliot's fourth novel and turned out to be one of her least commercially successful works. Despite this, many literary critics and historians have argued that Romola was Eliot's greatest novel. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
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Set in Florence during the Renaissance, Eliot's classic novel tells the story of the noblewoman Romola de' Bardi and her suitor and eventual husband, the unscrupulous Tito Melema.
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Romola; an historical novel
Romola. (With an introduction by Rudolf Dircks.)
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A novel of historical fiction, Romola was first published in 1862. Set in 15th-century Florence, Italy, the plot involves several actual events and figures from Florentine history, including Girolamo Savonarola and Niccolo Machiavelli.
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Romola, the dutiful daughter of a blind scholar in Renaissance Florence, is married to the politically ambitious Tito, whose machinations bring her to ruin. Forced to reinvent herself, Romola forges a bold new path in life. Published in 1862, this brilliant novel is notable for its attention to historical detail.
Romola. Silas Marner
Romola : an historical novel
Tragic novel based on a special study of Florentine history, in the epoch 1492-1509, the days of Lorenzo de Medici. For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Theophrastus Such
Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and religious turmoil, George Eliot's only historical novel blends vivid fictional characters with historical figures such as Savonarola, Machiavelli, and the Medicis. When Romola, the virtuous daughter of a blind scholar, marries Tito Melema, a charismatic young Greek, she is bound to a man whose escalating betrayals threaten to destroy all that she holds dear. Profoundly inspired by Savonarola's teachings, then crushed by the religious leader's ultimate failure, Romola finds her salvation in noble self-sacrifice.
[Romola. With illustrations by Sir Frederick Leighton.]
Historical fiction
George Eliot's Romola, writes Robert Kiely in his Introduction, embodies the author's "wrestling with her own best theories of history and human nature as a creative experiment of the highest order." Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and religious turmoil, Eliot's novel blends vivid fictional characters with historical figures such as Savonarola, Machiavelli, and the Medicis. When Romola, the virtuous daughter of a blind scholar, marries Tito Melema, a charismatic young Greek, she is bound to a man whose escalating betrayals threaten to destroy all that she holds dear. Profoundly inspired by Savonarola's teachings, then crushed by the religious leader's ultimate failure, Romola finds her salvation in noble self-sacrifice. This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the 1878 Cabinet Edition. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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