“This Particular Web”: George Eliot and the Others
edited by
Francesco Marroni and Anna Enrichetta Soccio
Contents
Introduction
MULTIPLE WEBS / MULTIPLE MINDS
Allan C. Christensen Panoramas of Human Stupidity: George Eliot’s Middlemarch and Carlo Cipolla’s Le leggi fondamentali della stupidità umana
Anna Enrichetta Soccio Of Queen’s Library: Victoria, Albert and the Habit of Novel Reading
Richard Ambrosini The Geopolitics of Modernism: Revisiting the Idea of an Eliot-(James)-Conrad ”Great Tradition”
Michela Marroni George Eliot and the “Difficulty of the Translator’s Task”
EXPLORING REALITY/EXPANDING HORIZONS
Francesca Orestano Parallel Convergences: The Realisms of Charles
Dickens and George Eliot
Francesca D’Alfonso Adam Bede and the Contradictions of Realism
Enrico Reggiani George Eliot, Literary Soundscaping, and Beethoven
Gloria Lauri-Lucente The BBC 1994 Series Middlemarch and the Ghost of Infidelity
LEGACIES / GENEALOGIES
Jayne Thomas George Eliot’s Higher Critical Poetry and the Wordsworthian Inheritance
Marco Canani Untangling the “Romantic Web”: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Reformist Views in Middlemarch
Renzo D’Agnillo George Eliot’s Metacritical Analysis of Human Behaviour in Impressions of Theophrastus Such
Francesco Marroni George Eliot and Evil: Middlemarch, David Hume and the Lessons of Experience