George Eliot, European Novelist

Rignall (emeritus, U. of Warwick) has written extensively about British novelist Eliot (1819-80) and here shows how she aspired to be, and was long considered to be, a writer in the broad European current rather than strictly British. Among his topics are electric France and old Germany, European landscapes and the violence of history, Balzac and the delineation of quiet provincial life, European culture and the Jewish diaspora in Daniel Deronda, and Nietzsche and the anticipation Of Modernism. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)