Descript |
184 p. ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
Introduction -- The importance of Europe -- "Electric" France and "old" Germany -- The idea of travel -- European landscapes and the violence of history -- Balzac and "the delineation of quiet provincial life" -- Middlemarch, Madame Bovary, and the dangers of diffusion -- Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane and the elegiac strain -- European culture and the Jewish diaspora in Daniel Deronda -- Daniel Deronda and the French novel -- Nietzsche and anticipations of modernism. |
ISBN |
9781409422341 (hbk.) |
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