George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton"In George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton, Anna K. Nardo details how Eliot reimagined Milton's life and art to write epic novels for an age of unbelief. Nardo demonstrates that Eliot directly engaged Milton's poetry, prose, and the well-known legends of his life - transposing, reframing, regendering, and thus testing both the stories told about Milton and the stories Milton told."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... Milton , perhaps even more than the angel of God . Both rejected the reli- gious orthodoxy of their eras ; both shocked contemporaries by defying conventional notions about marriage ; both read widely in Latin , Greek , Hebrew , and the ...
... Milton , perhaps even more than the angel of God . Both rejected the reli- gious orthodoxy of their eras ; both shocked contemporaries by defying conventional notions about marriage ; both read widely in Latin , Greek , Hebrew , and the ...
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... Milton” (GEL, 1:29). That Milton's poetry is embedded in the mental sediment of the girl who would become George Eliot is not surprising. Every educated Victorian knew his or her Milton. Indeed, Paradise Lost, along with Pilgrim's ...
... Milton” (GEL, 1:29). That Milton's poetry is embedded in the mental sediment of the girl who would become George Eliot is not surprising. Every educated Victorian knew his or her Milton. Indeed, Paradise Lost, along with Pilgrim's ...
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... Milton , an intensely serious girl measures her- self against Milton's high standards of moral virtue . Ten years later — having publicly rejected orthodox Christianity , re- fused to attend Anglican services with her father , then ...
... Milton , an intensely serious girl measures her- self against Milton's high standards of moral virtue . Ten years later — having publicly rejected orthodox Christianity , re- fused to attend Anglican services with her father , then ...
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... Milton , with an Introduction to Paradise Lost for the Leader in August 1855 , Evans devoted considerable attention to Milton's trea- tises on divorce . Conceding that Milton , whose young wife deserted him after barely two months of ...
... Milton , with an Introduction to Paradise Lost for the Leader in August 1855 , Evans devoted considerable attention to Milton's trea- tises on divorce . Conceding that Milton , whose young wife deserted him after barely two months of ...
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... Milton's prose (and storing them up for lat- er use), Evans encountered a different facet of Milton's career. As a seri- ous girl of evangelical sensibilities, Mary Ann had internalized Milton's poetry as part of her cultural heritage ...
... Milton's prose (and storing them up for lat- er use), Evans encountered a different facet of Milton's career. As a seri- ous girl of evangelical sensibilities, Mary Ann had internalized Milton's poetry as part of her cultural heritage ...
Contents
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Milton and Romolas Fathers | 66 |
Milton and Dorotheas Husbands | 83 |
Testing the Ways of Milton in Middlemarch | 111 |
Eliots Challenge to Milton in Adam Bede | 135 |
The Freedom of My Mind | 166 |
A Wider Vision | 189 |
Great Benefactors of Mankind Deliverers | 216 |
Conclusion | 247 |
Bibliography | 261 |
Index | 275 |
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