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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... force ” in his descriptions of a husband “ bound fast to an uncomplying discord of nature ... an image of earth and phlegm , with whom he looked to be the copartner of a sweet and glad- some society ” ( Essays , 157 ) . Alluding to Mrs ...
... force ” in his descriptions of a husband “ bound fast to an uncomplying discord of nature ... an image of earth and phlegm , with whom he looked to be the copartner of a sweet and glad- some society ” ( Essays , 157 ) . Alluding to Mrs ...
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... Fedalma, Father Isidor, who suspects that Fedalma's “blood / Is as unchristian as the leopard's” (SG, 259), forces Silva to confront a choice as stark as Fedalma's: Miserable man ! Your strength will [ turn ] to Introduction 9.
... Fedalma, Father Isidor, who suspects that Fedalma's “blood / Is as unchristian as the leopard's” (SG, 259), forces Silva to confront a choice as stark as Fedalma's: Miserable man ! Your strength will [ turn ] to Introduction 9.
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... force effected not: that he no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. (PL 1.646–49) In these echoes of Satanic rhetoric, Eliot represents the ironic fulfillment of Father Isidor's ...
... force effected not: that he no less At length from us may find, who overcomes By force, hath overcome but half his foe. (PL 1.646–49) In these echoes of Satanic rhetoric, Eliot represents the ironic fulfillment of Father Isidor's ...
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... force of racial , national , and reli- gious identity that has formed both Fedalma and Silva and compels both to submit — the force that will later reappear in Daniel Deronda . No one , claims Eliot , can “ shape his life / Without ...
... force of racial , national , and reli- gious identity that has formed both Fedalma and Silva and compels both to submit — the force that will later reappear in Daniel Deronda . No one , claims Eliot , can “ shape his life / Without ...
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... force of masculine passion ” ( Mm , 62 ) . Now , although he seems bent on “ acquitting himself worthily ” as a tour guide , Dorothea has her first inklings that the knowledge she hoped to gain from his vast reading of books is only the ...
... force of masculine passion ” ( Mm , 62 ) . Now , although he seems bent on “ acquitting himself worthily ” as a tour guide , Dorothea has her first inklings that the knowledge she hoped to gain from his vast reading of books is only the ...
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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