It occasionally happens that a book written to explain an earlier age takes on a new and startling relevance in a later one. This is the case with George Eliot's last and most ambitious novel, Daniel Deronda. Published in parts between 1873 and 1876,...

Daniel Deronda's focus turned away from the home and toward an abstracted community known also as the homeland. The domestic community of a household can be abstracted but can also be experienced first hand. The nation's domestic community, however, can only be imagined. This...

It's been a big year for Hugh Dancy, the actor anointed by media as the next British heartthrob about to storm our shores.Dancy is appearing in his first Broadway play, starring as the tortured Capt. Stanhope in the British classic "Journey's End." He also has...

In the following excerpt, Ender contends that George Eliot's Daniel Deronda exemplifies the problematic manner in which hysteria—as an illness that simultaneously resists and demands interpretation—informs both the content and the structure of literary representation.

In the following excerpt, Lewis comments on George Eliot's depiction of Daniel Deronda as both an Englishman and a Jew, noting that his characterization within the context of Orientalism brings out the best qualities from both identities.

In the following essay, Brantlinger discusses the ways in which George Eliot's Daniel Deronda and Benjamin Disraeli's Young England trilogy employ Orientalist themes to critique English nationalism and racism.