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Item Metadata only 'A definite outline for our ignorance': Italian cultural mediation in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda(Edizioni Università di Trieste, 1999) Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only 'A definite outline for our ignorance': Italian cultural mediation in George Eliot's Daniel Deronda(1996-09) Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only Item Open Access G. H. Lewes Reads Cymbeline: His Annotations in Knight’s Shakspere(Oxford University Press, 2021-08-23) Baker, William; Thompson, AndrewGeorge Henry Lewes’s (1817–1878) reading of Cymbeline in his extensively annotated copy of Charles Knight’s 12 volume edition of Shakspere, the second edition of which was published between 1842 and 1844 and is now at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., is of considerable interest.1Cymbeline is among the eleven plays in the First Folio described as ‘Tragedies’, although today it is characterized as a ‘romance’, and was extremely popular on the nineteenth-century stage. For Hazlitt, ‘of all Shakespeare’s women she [Innogen] is perhaps the most tender and the most artless’, and for Anna Jameson, Innogen is ‘the most perfect’.2 Knight’s eighth volume contains the text annotated by Lewes. His marginal observations are representative of his close reading of Shakespeare’s text, revealing amongst other elements, intertextuality, a concern with metrics that Lewes subsequently uses in his ‘Shakspeare and his Editors’, Foreign Quarterly Review, 43 (1845), 21–41, and an awareness of editorial commentary.Item Metadata only George Eliot and Dante(Four Courts Press, 2003) Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only George Eliot and Dante in Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda(1995-09-10) Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only George Eliot and Italy: Literary, Cultural and Political Influences from Dante to the Risorgimento(Macmillan, 1998-12) Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only George Eliot as “worthy scholar”: note taking and the composition of Romola(Palgrave Macmillan, 2019-03-10) Thompson, AndrewGeorge Eliot found Romola challenging to write. She filled several notebooks with historical detail on Florentine life, including Italian writings from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as well as those by later French, German and English authors. Extracting passages that interested her, she abridged, sometimes transcribing in Italian interspersed with English, and storing her notes under headings in her notebooks or “quarries” and she compiled lists, chronologies and indices as aides-memoires. These notebooks provide insights into Eliot’s compositional processes and show her addressing the challenge of incorporating a large amount of historical information into the text in imaginative and subtle ways. The Romola notebooks may support criticisms of the novel for an excess of erudition and scholarship, but they reveal little of the story of Eliot’s imaginative labor of composition.Item Metadata only A George Eliot Holograph Notebook: An Edition(Penn State University Press, 2006-09) Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only George Eliot On and Off the Beaten Track: ‘Recollections’ of Germany and Italy(Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015) Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only George Eliot, Dante and Moral Choice in Felix Holt, the Radical(Oxford University Press, 1991-07) Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only George Eliot, Early and Late: Review article on Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press, Fionnuala Dillane, CUP 2013, and George Eliot in Society: Travels Abroad and Sundays at the Priory, Kathleen McCormack, Ohio State University Press, 2013(Nineteenth Century Prose Online, 2015-09) Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only George Eliot’s Borrowings from Dante: a List of Sources(Northern Illinois University, US, 2003) Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only George Eliot’s Florentine Notes: An Edition of the Notebook Held at the British Library, London(Penn State University Press, 2018-04) Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only George Eliot’s Quarry for Romola: an edition of the notebook held in the Morris L. Parrish collection at Princeton University Library (c0171 [no. 69])(Penn State University Press, 2014-09) Thompson, AndrewItem Open Access George Henry Lewes’s Annotations of the Comedies in Charles Knight’s Shakspere (2nd Edition, 1842–1844)(Oxford University Press, 2021-08-23) Baker, William; Thompson, AndrewGeorge Henry Lewes’s (1817–1878) extensively annotated copy of the twelve-volume The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere, edited by Charles Knight (2nd edition, 1842–1844) and published by Knight, is now at the Folger Library, Washington, DC.1 What follows is a record of selective Lewes annotations on four of the comedies contained in the first three volumes of his copy, with a brief discussion of patterns in his Shakespearian marginalia for this group of plays.2 Lewes’s innumerable marginal linings and underscoring, however, are too numerous to include in their totality in this account. Lewes’s annotations constitute unpublished primary material, are a resource for the study of reading Shakespeare in the 1840’s, the Shakespeare/Knight edition and provide insight into an early Victorian responding to selected Shakespearian Comedies. Unfortunately, space considerations do not allow for description of Lewes’s spacing on Knight’s page, or his ink usage.Item Metadata only Giuseppe Mazzini and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda(University of Genoa, Italy, 1993) Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only Goldoni and Venice(University Texts, Market Harborough, 1993) Cervato, Emanuela; Thompson, AndrewItem Metadata only On Carrier-Pigeons and the Electric Telegraph: an elusive note in two George Eliot notebooks(Oxford University Press, 2021-08-21) Thompson, AndrewIn George Eliot’s holograph notebook in the Bodleian Library in Oxford (MS. Don. G. 8) containing material gathered while researching her Italian novel Romola set at the end of the fifteenth century in Florence, there appears a seemingly incongruous entry: ‘Instead of carrier-pigeons the electric telegraph’.1 This note is preceded by a short list of books on the history of Venice in the Middle Ages, and followed by a quotation from one of these sources together with two more entries from Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. The notebook was in use between January 1862 and late 1864, and some of these entries can be closely related to material which eventually found its way into the novel. However, Eliot’s entry on carrier-pigeons and the electric telegraph appears to be wholly unconnected with the surrounding material, and I was unable to trace a source for it while researching my edition of Eliot’s Bodleian Romola notebook. An almost identical note appears in another Eliot notebook also containing notes made while researching Romola, which reads: ‘Instead of carrier pigeons—the electric telegraph!’.2 The editor of MS 708 was also unable to identify a source for this entry. Similar entries to those in MS. Don. G. 8. surround the MS. 708 entry, which is preceded by notes from Gibbon’s Decline and Fall, Hody’s De Graecis Illustribus, and followed by an unidentified entry on the length of time it took the Roman Empire to adopt Christianity and further unidentified entries on topics including the conception of the Supreme Being, and a little girl telling God a fable ‘because he must be so tired of hearing prayers’. Like MS. Don. G. 8, MS 708 was probably in use from early 1862 onwards.Item Metadata only Preparing an edition of George Eliot’s Romola notebook(2006) Thompson, Andrew