Daniel Deronda Foreignness and 'The Other' Quotes

How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #4

"Catherine will be very glad for others to win," said Mrs. Arrowpoint, "she is so magnanimous. It was entirely her considerateness that made us bring Herr Klesmer instead of Canon Stopley, who had expressed a wish to come. For her own pleasure, I am sure she would rather have brought the Canon; but she is always thinking of others. I told her it was not quite en règle to bring one so far out of our own set; but she said, 'Genius itself is not en règle; it comes into the world to make new rules.' And one must admit that." (10.24)

Mrs. Arrowpoint can't imagine that Catherine might have invited Klesmer out of anything other than charity – he doesn't seem to belong with the proper British crowd. We say, how could Catherine ever help falling for those flowing locks?

Quote #5

Then Grandcourt said, "What men are invited here with their wives?"

Lush drew out a note-book. "The Captain and Mrs. Torrington come next week. Then there are Mr. Hollis and Lady Flora, and the Cushats, and the Gogoffs."

"Rather a ragged lot," remarked Grandcourt after a while. "Why did you ask the Gogoffs? When you write invitations in my name, be good enough to give me a list, instead of bringing down a giantess on me without my knowledge. She spoils the look of the room." (12.11-13)

Not only does Mrs. Gogoff look different, but she also has a distinctly Russian last name.

Quote #6

In hours when his dissatisfaction was strong upon him [Daniel] reproached himself for having been attracted by the conventional advantage of belonging to an English university, and it was tempted towards the project of asking Sir Hugo to let him quit Cambridge and pursue a more independent line of study abroad. The germs of this inclination had been already stirring in his boyish love of universal history, which made him want to be at home in foreign countries, and follow in imagination the travelling students of the middle ages. (16.59)

Daniel doesn't want to only belong to the Anglo-centric (that is to say, British-centered) world that he lives in; he wants to experience other cultures. Lucky for him he meets Mirah and Mordecai…