The Thames River in London
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.
Characters’ attitudes towards money and understanding of wealth
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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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Language in the core and periphery
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?
Bad Homburg, Germany
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.