George Eliot's Daniel Deronda notebooks
George Eliot's notebooks from the years 1872-77 contain memoranda of her reading while she was preparing for and writing Daniel Deronda, together with the 'Oriental Memoranda' and other notes she recorded in the year following the novel's publication. Above all, the notebooks reveal her acquisition of a wide range of learning about Judaism, and provide insight into the creative process of integrating that learning into Daniel Deronda. One of these notebooks is published here for the first time; others are offered in new transcriptions. They are presented in a form which demonstrates the intellectual coherence underlying the diversity of the memoranda: translations are provided for the notes in German, French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew; explanatory headnotes are offered, and interpretative links are made to the novel; primary sources are traced and the chronology of George Eliot's reading outlined
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xlii, 524 pages ; 23 cm
9780521460644, 0521460646
34319803
Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Berg Notebook: Part II. The Pforzheimer Notebooks: Pforzheimer notebook 711; Pforzheimer notebook 710; Pforzheimer notebook 707; Bibliographical index: George Eliot's sources; Subject index.
English text, notes and translations in multiple languages