Studies in the Novel, September 22nd, 1998
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 community poses a set of difficulties for the narration of late 19th-century domesticity.
Humiliated at the gambling tables of the continent, Gwendolyn Harleth returns to her English homeland and to Offendene. "Just large enough to be called a mansion," Offendene is difficult to rent because it has no landed property att...
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