...Rachel Kravetz Rachel Kravetz, “The Radiant Tableaux of Daniel Deronda ” (pp. 68–93) This essay argues that the ekphrastic images in Daniel Deronda (1876) mark a shift in George Eliot’s thought away from a historical to a prophetic national mode. Taking as a point of departure the critical...

... each work’s central narrative. The moral transformation of the central characters, especially Daniel and Gwendolen in Eliot’s last novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), initiates them into the practices of the “good translator” as she defines them in her early writing on translation. Meanwhile...

... specific heirlooms in Middlemarch (1871–72) and Daniel Deronda (1876)—including miniature portraits, emeralds, turquoises, and diamonds—to reveal the surprising politics embedded in Eliot's heirlooms that her nineteenth-century readers would certainly have recognized. Inherited Emotions: George Eliot...