Rushworth, Jennifer;
(2025)
Reading Dante with George Eliot and Co.
Forum for Modern Language Studies
, 61
(2)
pp. 169-176.
10.1093/fmls/cqaf025.
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Abstract
This short article approaches intertextuality as a network, as a form of ‘reading with’ and in company which is inevitably complex, mediated and fragmentary. It takes as its primary example a chapter from George Eliot’s last novel Daniel Deronda (1876) in which Dante is explicitly present: on the one hand, as the words for a song from Gioachino Rossini’s opera Otello (1816); on the other, via a paraphrase by Alfred, Lord Tennyson placed as the chapter’s epigraph. This example confirms Caroline Levine’s argument about transnational ‘networks allow[ing] us to reconceive what is proper to Victorian literature’, so as to include Dante, for example (Levine, ‘From Nation to Network’, Victorian Studies, 55.4 (2013), 647–66 (p. 664)). Yet it also raises vital and even worrying questions about the canon as a network, about the presence and role of fragmentation and about an overreliance on authors and authorship.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Reading Dante with George Eliot and Co. |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/fmls/cqaf025 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqaf025 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | # The Author(s) 2025. Published by Oxford University Press for the Court of the University of St Andrews. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > SELCS |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10209243 |
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