Degree Year
1973
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Advisor(s)
Katherine Linehan
Keywords
Daniel Deronda, Middlemarch, George Eliot
Abstract
Daniel Deronda (published 1876) is George Eliot's last and in many ways most controversial novel. Contemporary readers resent her writing anything which would compete with Middlemarch, an immensely popular novel and Deronda's immediate predecessor. Even today Deronda suffers due to its location in the George Eliot canon. Whereas Middlemarch is universally acclaimed, Daniel Deronda is often dismissed as a failure (limited or otherwise) when it is compared with the book Virginia Woolf calls "one of the few English novels written for grown-up people."
Repository Citation
Golis, Candyce, "Daniel Deronda: A Consideration of George Eliot's Concept of Culture" (1973). Honors Papers. 752.
https://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/honors/752
