It was in the evening in July when Daniel was rowing down the Thames singing a song about misery when he save Mirah Lapidoth from trying to drown herself. We learn that she is english-born and jewish and that she is looking for her parents. She asks Daniel, "Do you despise me for it" (eliot 172), that being the fact that she is part Jewish.
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But he was now a prey to that worst irritation which arises not simply from annoyances, but from the second consciousness underlying those annoyances, of wasted energy and a degrading preoccupation, which was the reverse of all his former purposes.
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Standard literary histography thus reserves autonomy and agency for the centre, and necessary imitation with local colour for the peripheries. (Julien, 674)
How can the relationship of language between the core and peripheries in Julien's "The Extroverted African Novel" shed light on the power dynamics within Middlemarch society?
Here in Bad Homburg, Germany, Eliot would receive inspiration for a scene in the beginning of Daniel Deronda where Daniel sees Gwendolen recklessly gambling at a Continental spa. In 1872, Eliot took a trip to the “German Spa of Bad Homburg” and witnessed a similar situation involving Lord Byron’s great-niece losing heavily while gambling, thus giving her the idea for the scene in the novel. It is interesting to discover more how these themes of gambling correlate to Eliot’s perspective of Jews.
Ezra Pound, born Ezra Loomis Pound, was originally from Idaho. He was an American poet who is credited with having done more than any other single figure to advance the modern movement in English and American Literature. Ezra Pound employed a technique to his poetry called Imagism. Imagism is part of a 20th centry movement in poetry which advocated for free verse as well as the expression of ideas/emotions through clearly painted images. The use of Imagism in poetry allowed the poets more words at their disposal for forming poetry.
