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Daniel Deronda
by George Eliot
Thursday Evenings
September 19, 2024 to January 23, 2025
5:30-7:00PM Pacific
Why did the author of the matchless Middlemarch at last turn her pen to one of the most vexing questions of the late nineteenth century and of all European history? England had not only abolished slavery, but had emancipated, to one degree or another, its religious minorities over the preceding decades, and at the time of the novel’s publication, had a Jewish prime minister, albeit one who had converted to Anglicanism in boyhood. Enter Deronda, wherein that most ancient European grudge, writ not only large but general, rooted in the rootless fantasy of religious fallacy, underlies the unease of a growingly comfortable society made secure by the exploits of a maritime empire – as it comes into the ken of one of the most acute observers of human character and psyche ever to write English prose. Online seminars in this series will take place on Thursday evenings, 5:30-7:00PM Pacific Time. Groups will be limited to 16 participants and no prior knowledge is required. Teachers will be offered 3 CEU credits for participating.
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