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This study shifts the critical emphasis from canonical author to her uncanonical text - from George Eliot to "Romola" - and so broadens the range of interpretive possibilities while bringing them into sharper focus. Eliot scholars have largely neglected the historical complexity of "Romola", though it is a novel rich in political and textual issues. Among the issues explored here are the domestic politics of marriage, the relationship between narrative and epistemology, the materiality of the text, the novels relation to narratives of martyrdom, and the gendering of space.
Contents
Rethinking the textis it anyway? Mark W. Turner; the texts of Romola, Andrew Brown. Rethinking the heroine: mapping Romola - physical space, women's place, Shona Elizabeth Simpson; "telling the whole" - trauma, drifting and reconciliation in Romola, Julian Corner; from Romola to Romola - a complex act of naming, Susan M. Bernanrdo. Rethinking authority: George Elyot martyrologist - the case of Savonarola, David Carroll; power and persuasion - voices of influence in Romola, Beryl Gray; the prophetic fallacy - realism, foreshadowing, and narrative knowledge in Romola, Caroline Levine; "an imperceptible start" - the sight of humanity in Romola, Chris Greenwood; angels and archangels - Romola and the paintings of Florence, Leonee Ormond.
