All the same Daniel's story has had a significant influence on Zionism.ĭaniel Deronda contains two main strains of plot, united by the title character. The novel has two main strands of plot, and while the 'story of Gwendolen' has been described as 'one of the masterpieces of English fiction', that part concerned with Daniel Deronda has been described as 'flat and unconvincing'. It has also been adapted for the stage, notably in the 1960s by the 69 Theatre Company in Manchester with Vanessa Redgrave cast as the heroine Gwendolen Harleth. The novel has been adapted for film three times, once as a silent feature and twice for television. The work's mixture of social satire and moral searching, along with its sympathetic rendering of Jewish proto- Zionist ideas, has made it the controversial final statement of one of the most renowned Victorian novelists. It was the last novel she completed and the only one set in the Victorian society of her day. Nineteenth-Century Literature 53 (2): 188–210.Daniel Deronda is a novel written by English author George Eliot, first published in eight parts (books) February to September 1876. Daniel Deronda and the politics of nationalism. Chicago/London: Chicago University Press. A probable state: The novel, the contract, and the Jews. Victorian Literature and Culture 32 (2): 565–574. Vocation and sympathy in Daniel Deronda: The self and the larger whole. English: The Journal of the English Association 49 (195): 205–227. ‘A binding history, tragic and yet glorious’ – George Eliot and the Jewish element in Daniel Deronda. New Literary History: A Journal of Theory and Interpretation 37 (2): 361–388. The way of the world: The Bildungsroman in European Culture. The great tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad. Transparency and epistemology in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda. The subject of modernism: Narrative alterations in the fiction of Eliot, Conrad, Woolf, and Joyce.

Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory 16 (1): 75–99. Daniel Deronda and the ethics of alterity. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.Įliot, G. Darwin’s plots: Evolutionary narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and nineteenth-century fiction. Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture, and Society 3 (3): 61–73.īeer, G. Relativizing nationalism: The role of Klesmer in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda. Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities 10 (1): 39–61.Īrkush, A.

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