I listened to Nadia May reading it aloud in an unabridged form on CDs in my car. It was a close read of a mighty meaty book. I took a course in the book (alas only 7 sessions, but we went over time - well past 90 minutes - a number of times) with the marvelously inspiring enchanting Maria Frawley online at Politics and Prose I participated in a group reading and discussion of it with at least 20 people on the TWWRN face-book group, where each three days someone wrote about three chapters, often in detail, with summaries, evaluations, questions, pictures attached. She is mirroring her and Lewes’s life once again (as she did in Middlemarch) …įor the past 3 months, in four different ways, on top of reading the book silently to myself, I’ve been engaged socially through George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda. The problem is, Where is George Eliot in her book? and how is it a text we find her working her own deeper psychic problems out through. To read it as one tapestry with the Jewish story just one strand won’t do either. Here I describe the experience of the book I’ve had over these 3 months, describe it generally and argue that the way of reading it as two separate sides is not adequate - though understandable. From Andrew Davies’ 2004 serial drama, three of the major characters of Daniel Deronda: Daniel (Hugh Dancy) Gwendolen Harleth (Romolai Gareth), and Grandcourt Mallinger (Hugh Bonneville)
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