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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... poet of England's great epic Paradise Lost as “my demigod Milton” (GEL, 5:238).1 Even allowing for the exaggerations of powerful feeling, some critics of her novels have felt that Eliot—a zealous evangelical as a girl, an infamous ...
... poet of England's great epic Paradise Lost as “my demigod Milton” (GEL, 5:238).1 Even allowing for the exaggerations of powerful feeling, some critics of her novels have felt that Eliot—a zealous evangelical as a girl, an infamous ...
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... poetry will be more audible. Thus Part II turns to this engagement first in Middlemarch, where Eliot's dialogues with both the legends and poetry interact, then in her earlier and subsequent novels— Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss ...
... poetry will be more audible. Thus Part II turns to this engagement first in Middlemarch, where Eliot's dialogues with both the legends and poetry interact, then in her earlier and subsequent novels— Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss ...
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... poetry picked up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Milton” (GEL, 1:29). That Milton's poetry is embedded in the mental sediment of the girl who would become George Eliot is not surprising. Every educated Victorian knew his or ...
... poetry picked up from Shakespeare, Cowper, Wordsworth, and Milton” (GEL, 1:29). That Milton's poetry is embedded in the mental sediment of the girl who would become George Eliot is not surprising. Every educated Victorian knew his or ...
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... poetry as part of her cultural heritage, but as a thirty-three-year-old freethinker, Evans encountered in Keightley's biography Milton the controversial reformer, whose readiness to defy contemporary beliefs and customs matched her own ...
... poetry as part of her cultural heritage, but as a thirty-three-year-old freethinker, Evans encountered in Keightley's biography Milton the controversial reformer, whose readiness to defy contemporary beliefs and customs matched her own ...
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... poetry. As we will see in subsequent chapters, her novels engage his life, characters, plots, themes, theology, and language, but only in The Spanish Gypsy did Eliot try to write poetry in Milton's high style. By attending to the ...
... poetry. As we will see in subsequent chapters, her novels engage his life, characters, plots, themes, theology, and language, but only in The Spanish Gypsy did Eliot try to write poetry in Milton's high style. By attending to the ...
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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