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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... argues , I cannot assent to the notion ... that the highest minds must necessarily as- pire to a sort of Milton blindness in which the “ tiefste der Sinne ” [ depth of consciousness ] is to be a substitute for all the rest . I cannot ...
... argues , I cannot assent to the notion ... that the highest minds must necessarily as- pire to a sort of Milton blindness in which the “ tiefste der Sinne ” [ depth of consciousness ] is to be a substitute for all the rest . I cannot ...
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... argue , a turning point in her writing career that refocuses her attention on Milton's poetry , his life , and his role in the political and religious controversies of the seventeenth century . In The Spanish Gypsy , Catholic knights ...
... argue , a turning point in her writing career that refocuses her attention on Milton's poetry , his life , and his role in the political and religious controversies of the seventeenth century . In The Spanish Gypsy , Catholic knights ...
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... him a Satanic soliloquy. Arguing “with his many-voiced self ” (SG, 409), Silva echoes both Satan's despair over his ex- ile and his proud insistence on his choice: I never shall repent ! for I go away Beyond Introduction 11.
... him a Satanic soliloquy. Arguing “with his many-voiced self ” (SG, 409), Silva echoes both Satan's despair over his ex- ile and his proud insistence on his choice: I never shall repent ! for I go away Beyond Introduction 11.
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... argue against censorship , not for murder , “ As good almost [ kill ] a man as kill a good book ” ( WN , 100 ) .15 But in ... argues against the Parliamentary ordinance of 1643 that required the licensing of books prior to publication ...
... argue against censorship , not for murder , “ As good almost [ kill ] a man as kill a good book ” ( WN , 100 ) .15 But in ... argues against the Parliamentary ordinance of 1643 that required the licensing of books prior to publication ...
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... argue that reading Milton instilled in women writers like Eliot a debili- tating “ anxiety of authorship . ” Eliot's ... arguing that Eliot's heroines desire the patriarchal father , repre- sented in Middlemarch by the Miltonic Casaubon ...
... argue that reading Milton instilled in women writers like Eliot a debili- tating “ anxiety of authorship . ” Eliot's ... arguing that Eliot's heroines desire the patriarchal father , repre- sented in Middlemarch by the Miltonic Casaubon ...
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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