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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... Paradise Lost Paradise Regained The Reason of Church Government Samson Agonistes Sonnets 12, 22, 23 George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton A 1 Introduction Mary xii Abbreviations.
... Paradise Lost Paradise Regained The Reason of Church Government Samson Agonistes Sonnets 12, 22, 23 George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton A 1 Introduction Mary xii Abbreviations.
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... Paradise Lost as “ my demigod Mil- ton ” ( GEL , 5 : 238 ) .1 Even allowing for the exaggerations of powerful feel- ing , some critics of her novels have felt that Eliot — a zealous evangelical as a girl , an infamous agnostic as a ...
... Paradise Lost as “ my demigod Mil- ton ” ( GEL , 5 : 238 ) .1 Even allowing for the exaggerations of powerful feel- ing , some critics of her novels have felt that Eliot — a zealous evangelical as a girl , an infamous agnostic as a ...
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... Paradise Lost, along with Pilgrim's Progress, was one of the few storybooks allowed to children on the Victorian Sun- day.3 But Mary Ann never stopped reading Milton. As George Eliot, she read and reread his poetry and prose ...
... Paradise Lost, along with Pilgrim's Progress, was one of the few storybooks allowed to children on the Victorian Sun- day.3 But Mary Ann never stopped reading Milton. As George Eliot, she read and reread his poetry and prose ...
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... 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 marriage , pleads his own case in ...
... 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 marriage , pleads his own case in ...
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... paradise is lost and regained through Adam and Eve's moral choices . Milton's God offers the newly created Adam an em- pire to rule : 5. M. H. Abrams , A Glossary of Literary Terms , 49 . This Paradise I give thee, count it thine To ...
... paradise is lost and regained through Adam and Eve's moral choices . Milton's God offers the newly created Adam an em- pire to rule : 5. M. H. Abrams , A Glossary of Literary Terms , 49 . This Paradise I give thee, count it thine To ...
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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