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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... Scenes of Clerical Life (1857), Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Romola ... scene evokes questions that haunted Eliot's earlier life and fiction: When should duty compel submission of the self ...
... Scenes of Clerical Life (1857), Adam Bede (1859), The Mill on the Floss (1860), Silas Marner (1861), and Romola ... scene evokes questions that haunted Eliot's earlier life and fiction: When should duty compel submission of the self ...
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... scene focuses these questions on a heroine , whose private life is transformed into public service — a potentially epic heroine , “ on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe , a nation , or the hu- man race . . ” 5 From this ...
... scene focuses these questions on a heroine , whose private life is transformed into public service — a potentially epic heroine , “ on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe , a nation , or the hu- man race . . ” 5 From this ...
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... scene of seduction ” to her theoretical model , arguing that Eliot's heroines desire the patriarchal father , repre- sented in Middlemarch by the Miltonic Casaubon . Eliot's narrative struc- ture reconciles struggle with desire ...
... scene of seduction ” to her theoretical model , arguing that Eliot's heroines desire the patriarchal father , repre- sented in Middlemarch by the Miltonic Casaubon . Eliot's narrative struc- ture reconciles struggle with desire ...
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... scenes of Milton's domestic life — wagging their heads over the desertion of his first wife , Mary Powell , and his attempt to use his daughters as readers and perhaps even scribes . Throughout her novel - writing career , Eliot counted ...
... scenes of Milton's domestic life — wagging their heads over the desertion of his first wife , Mary Powell , and his attempt to use his daughters as readers and perhaps even scribes . Throughout her novel - writing career , Eliot counted ...
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... scenes . At the end of the eighteenth century , William Hayley , patron of Blake and friend of Cowper , began to develop ... scene of marital reconciliation , which he did not witness but records with novelistic detail , on his read- 5 ...
... scenes . At the end of the eighteenth century , William Hayley , patron of Blake and friend of Cowper , began to develop ... scene of marital reconciliation , which he did not witness but records with novelistic detail , on his read- 5 ...
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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