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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... after her mother's death . See Rosemarie Bodenheimer , “ A Woman of Many Names , " 20-37 . I will use the spelling " Mary Ann " throughout this study . twenty-first-century readers—no longer likely to share Thomas Babing- ton Macaulay's 1.
... after her mother's death . See Rosemarie Bodenheimer , “ A Woman of Many Names , " 20-37 . I will use the spelling " Mary Ann " throughout this study . twenty-first-century readers—no longer likely to share Thomas Babing- ton Macaulay's 1.
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Anna K. Nardo. twenty-first-century readers—no longer likely to share Thomas Babing- ton Macaulay's adoration of Milton as a champion and martyr of liber- ty—could recount the popular legends of his life often represented in nineteenth ...
Anna K. Nardo. twenty-first-century readers—no longer likely to share Thomas Babing- ton Macaulay's adoration of Milton as a champion and martyr of liber- ty—could recount the popular legends of his life often represented in nineteenth ...
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... readers bought it , modern critics have judged it “ vir- tually unreadable . ” At twenty - eight Mary Ann Evans had argued , as we have seen , that “ Artistic power ” does not originate in “ a sort of Milton blindness , in which the ...
... readers bought it , modern critics have judged it “ vir- tually unreadable . ” At twenty - eight Mary Ann Evans had argued , as we have seen , that “ Artistic power ” does not originate in “ a sort of Milton blindness , in which the ...
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... reader can detect a serious critique , for in the coming catastrophe Eliot's most Puritanical and least sympathetic character will enact a distorted version of Milton's lan- guage . In this trace , Eliot measures Milton's paean to the ...
... reader can detect a serious critique , for in the coming catastrophe Eliot's most Puritanical and least sympathetic character will enact a distorted version of Milton's lan- guage . In this trace , Eliot measures Milton's paean to the ...
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... readers , unmistakably authoritative discourse . By analyzing Eliot's technique of putting Milton- ic language in dialogue with itself , of evaluating Miltonic characters and episodes by Milton's own language , we will be able to ...
... readers , unmistakably authoritative discourse . By analyzing Eliot's technique of putting Milton- ic language in dialogue with itself , of evaluating Miltonic characters and episodes by Milton's own language , we will be able to ...
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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