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
- Literary relations
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