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George Eliot's Spanish Gypsy: the Spanish-Moorish motif. (Essays).
From: ANQ
Date: 20030322
Author:Szirotny, June Skye
Critics have identified possible sources for George Eliot's The Spanish Gypsy (1868) in several works about thwarted loves played out against the backdrop of the Spanish-Moorish wars. In 1925, Sibilla Pfeiffer noted that George Eliot, in her 1856 essay "German Wit: Heinrich Heine;" described the subject of Heine's poetic drama Almansor (1823) in words that might apply to her own poetic drama: "Der tragische Konflikt liegt nach iht `in the conflict between natural affection and the deadly hatred of religion and of race--in the sacrifice of youthful lovers to the strife between Moor ...
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