George Eliot's Romola: An Overview (original) (raw)

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

Last modified 20 February 2000