George Eliot's Romola: An Overview

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Biographical Materials

• A Brief Biography (Website in the U. K.)
• A George Eliot Chronology (Website in Japan)

Social, Political, and Cultural Contexts

• Visual Arts
  • Leighton's Illustrations to Romola
• Literary relations
  • Eliza Lynn Linton on the novel

  Theme and Technique

  • Theme and Subject
    • Interpretation
  • Setting and Description
    • employing Ruskinian balance of morality and immortality
  • Characterization
    • Three Stages in the Development of Characterization in George Eliot's Fiction
    • Hawthorne's The Marble Faun and Characterization in Romola
    • Ovidian idealization
  • Plot and Narrative Structure
  • Symbol, Image, and Motif
    • Bacchus and Ariadne
  • Genre and Style

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  Last modified 20 February 2000