Eliot’s final novel, Daniel Deronda (1876), has often been seen as problematic,
and for one major reason: the so-called Jewish storyline. The common sentiment
that the novel was one of two distinct halves, one vastly superior to the other, was
expressed most famously by F. R. Leavis in The Great Tradition (1948), where
he refers to the J…[Read more]

A consideration of how paratextual information present on two, recently-published little magazines — The Southern Review and The Virginia Quarterly Review — might work to mediate their readers’ literary expectations and interpretations. Published simultaneously at: https://southernfringes.substack.com