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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... later — writing to her former teacher Maria Lewis — Mary Ann fears that the dazzling power of her own overactive imagination might , like the enchantments of Comus , “ cheat my eye with blear illusion ” ( GEL , 1:66 ) . In this first ...
... later — writing to her former teacher Maria Lewis — Mary Ann fears that the dazzling power of her own overactive imagination might , like the enchantments of Comus , “ cheat my eye with blear illusion ” ( GEL , 1:66 ) . In this first ...
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... later inspire George Eliot to draw her own pictures of irremediable marital discord : Romola and Tito in Romola , the Tran- somes in Felix Holt , the Radical , Rosamond and Lydgate , Dorothea and Casaubon in Middlemarch , and Gwendolyn ...
... later inspire George Eliot to draw her own pictures of irremediable marital discord : Romola and Tito in Romola , the Tran- somes in Felix Holt , the Radical , Rosamond and Lydgate , Dorothea and Casaubon in Middlemarch , and Gwendolyn ...
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... Later, after all his proud speeches to rouse his fallen legions, Satan—now alone—confronts despair: Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest ...
... Later, after all his proud speeches to rouse his fallen legions, Satan—now alone—confronts despair: Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And in the lowest ...
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... later reappear in Daniel Deronda . No one , claims Eliot , can “ shape his life / Without obedience ” ( SG , 411 ) . An epic story in epic language , The Spanish Gypsy certainly does address the larger life of humankind . Although ...
... later reappear in Daniel Deronda . No one , claims Eliot , can “ shape his life / Without obedience ” ( SG , 411 ) . An epic story in epic language , The Spanish Gypsy certainly does address the larger life of humankind . Although ...
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... later reappear in her de- scription of Deronda's perplexity at being chosen to become Mordecai's “ executive self ” ( DD , 474–75 ) . As we shall also see , reading Milton's poem about Jesus ' discovery of his messianic destiny will ...
... later reappear in her de- scription of Deronda's perplexity at being chosen to become Mordecai's “ executive self ” ( DD , 474–75 ) . As we shall also see , reading Milton's poem about Jesus ' discovery of his messianic destiny will ...
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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