Genoa (Ocean)

 Depicts schooner Faustine 1873.

 In Book 7, we find Gwendolyn and Grandcourt sailing through the Mediterranean and ending up in Genoa. Gwendolyn joins Grandcourt for a quick sail, even though she doesn’t want to go sailing (Eliot, pg. 572). This trip leads to Grandcourt’s untimely death and a retrospect of Gwendolyn’s feelings about her life currently.  

Cambridge

Historically, Cambridge University in Cambridge, England, was generally considered the second-best university in the country, after Oxford, which its founders split from ca. 1209.  (Enyclopedia)

Foro Romano

The Foro Romano is the main public square in Rome. It is located between the Palatine, Velia, Quirinal, and Capitol. The Foro Romano was the center of religious, ceremonial, and commercial life within Rome. Gladiator fighting occurred here and the surrounding shops built balconies for viewing the fights. A growing increase in the public importance of popular politics necessitated the changing from the Comitium to the forum.

Foro Romano

The Foro Romano is the main public square in Rome. It is located between the Palatine, Velia, Quirinal, and Capitol. The Foro Romano was the center of religious, ceremonial, and commercial life within Rome. Gladiator fighting occurred here and the surrounding shops built balconies for viewing the fights. A growing increase in the public importance of popular politics necessitated the changing from the Comitium to the forum.

Magdeburg, Germany

 

Anti-Semitism ("hostility toward or discrimination against Jews as a religious or racial group") is notably exposed within Daniel Deronda. This term was coined by Wilhelm Marr, a German agitator (born in Magdeburg, Germany), to "designate the anti-Jewish campaigns under way in central Europe. This would eventually lead to Nazi anti-Semitism (or the Holocaust) because of the racist dimension which targeted Jews. 

the Three Barns, Wessex.

The fictitious Three Barns is the scene for which Rex Gascoigne takes Gwendolen to a hounds throw. A hounds throw is a traditional, stuffy, aristocratic British pastime that involves hunting for wild game on horseback with the aid of sporting dogs (Encyclopædia Britannica). This scene was particularly pivotal in Daniel Deronda, for it characterizes Gwendolen as brazen in her anti-conformation to Victorian notions of femininity.

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