George Eliot's 'Daniel Deronda' Notebooks by George Eliot, Ja... - 9780521460644

George Eliot's 'Daniel Deronda' NotebooksAuthor(s): George Eliot, Jane Irwin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521460644, 978-0521460644\nSynopsis\nGeorge Eliot's notebooks from the years [tel] contain memoranda of her reading while she was preparing for and writing Daniel Deronda, together with the 'Oriental Memoranda' and other notes she recorded in the year following the novel's publication. Above all, the notebooks reveal her acquisition of a wide range of learning about Judaism and provide insight into the creative process of integrating that learning into Daniel Deronda. One of these notebooks is published in this 1996 book; others are offered in new transcriptions. They are all presented in a form which demonstrates the intellectual coherence underlying the diversity of the memoranda: translations are provided for the notes in German, French, Italian, Greek, and Hebrew; explanatory notes .