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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... feel- ing , some critics of her novels have felt that Eliot — a zealous evangelical as a girl , an infamous agnostic as a woman — wrestled with the angel of Milton , perhaps even more than the angel of God . Both rejected the reli ...
... feel- ing , some critics of her novels have felt that Eliot — a zealous evangelical as a girl , an infamous agnostic as a woman — wrestled with the angel of Milton , perhaps even more than the angel of God . Both rejected the reli ...
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... feel on his honeymoon the power and passion when body ( Eros ) and soul ( Psyche ) unite ( Mm , 191 ) . Even before his marriage , when the scholar had tried to bring his reading and his experience of courtship together , he could only ...
... feel on his honeymoon the power and passion when body ( Eros ) and soul ( Psyche ) unite ( Mm , 191 ) . Even before his marriage , when the scholar had tried to bring his reading and his experience of courtship together , he could only ...
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... feels that “the ideal of his youth was not an unsubstantial im- age of the fancy; before him stood the magnificent embodiment of the re- ality” (Ring, 205). At this stage of the novel, Ring has placed Milton, meet- ing the vision of his ...
... feels that “the ideal of his youth was not an unsubstantial im- age of the fancy; before him stood the magnificent embodiment of the re- ality” (Ring, 205). At this stage of the novel, Ring has placed Milton, meet- ing the vision of his ...
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Contents
27 | |
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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