Romola Historical Novel of Renaissance Florence, Political Intrigue, Idealism, and Religious Upheaval
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Taschenbuch
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348
Maße (L/B/H)
1,8/15,2/22,9 cm
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485 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-285-2306-0
Set in late fifteenth-century Florence amid the upheavals surrounding Savonarola, George Eliot's Romola is a richly historical novel that joins Renaissance pageantry to grave moral inquiry. Through the fortunes of Romola de' Bardi, the opportunistic Tito Melema, and the prophetic Savonarola himself, Eliot studies conscience, betrayal, civic duty, and the claims of sympathy. More overtly erudite than her English provincial fiction, the novel adopts a stately, learned style, dense with historical reconstruction and intellectual seriousness, placing it within the great Victorian tradition of the historical novel while engaging questions of faith, republicanism, and ethical action with exceptional depth. George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans, brought to Romola her formidable classical learning, editorial discipline, and lifelong concern with the moral consequences of human choice. Her immersion in European thought, biblical criticism, and history, together with her travels in Italy, helped shape this ambitious departure from the Midlands settings of her better-known novels. Eliot's interest in the collision between private desire and public responsibility finds one of its most exacting expressions here. Romola will especially reward readers who admire intellectually ambitious fiction, meticulous historical atmosphere, and psychologically serious characterisation. It is a demanding but deeply rewarding novel, ideal for those seeking Eliot at her most expansive, humane, and philosophically searching.
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