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February 2026 – Daniel Deronda at 150: Love Sacred and Profane   Recently updated !

by Francesca Pierini (Asian University for Women) Abstract George Eliot’s last novel, Daniel Deronda, was first published in eight instalments from February to September 1876. The novel’s treatment of emerging Zionism has perhaps protected it from relaxed critical approaches, and the 150th anniversary of its publication falls at a time […]

Join the Literary Advent Calendar 2024: Festive Music!

Our department’s yearly advent calendar will return to the Connotations website with the theme “Festive Music”. If you enjoy reading literary texts aloud and would like to be featured in our calendar, you can submit a recording to capucine-marie.blanc@uni-tuebingen.de by November 24th. Select your own excerpt on this topic from your favourite piece or ask […]

July 2024 – A Passage to India at One Hundred: Rereading the Trial Scene

by Francesca Pierini (Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh) A Passage to India, E.M. Forster’s best-known novel, portrays the relations between the British colonial elite and the local community in a fictitious Indian town. When a young British woman accuses a local doctor of attempted rape, all latent conflicts precipitate. […]