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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Page 12
... struggle, but both choices end in futility and tragic loss. Thus The Spanish Gypsy asks Milton's epic questions about choice and law, freedom and duty, but reconfigures the basis of these questions. The inescapable power that determines ...
... struggle, but both choices end in futility and tragic loss. Thus The Spanish Gypsy asks Milton's epic questions about choice and law, freedom and duty, but reconfigures the basis of these questions. The inescapable power that determines ...
Page 14
... struggle—the world of Myriads of little joys, that ripen sweet And soothe the sorrowful spirit of the world, Groaning and travailing with the painful birth Of slow redemption. (SG, 444) Unlike Fedalma's, Dorothea's acts are decidedly ...
... struggle—the world of Myriads of little joys, that ripen sweet And soothe the sorrowful spirit of the world, Groaning and travailing with the painful birth Of slow redemption. (SG, 444) Unlike Fedalma's, Dorothea's acts are decidedly ...
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... struggle against the father, on which Bloom's theories depend. She adds, however, Freud's “scene of seduction” to her theoretical model, arguing that Eliot's heroines desire the patriarchal father, represented in Middlemarch by the ...
... struggle against the father, on which Bloom's theories depend. She adds, however, Freud's “scene of seduction” to her theoretical model, arguing that Eliot's heroines desire the patriarchal father, represented in Middlemarch by the ...
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... struggle or the seduction of the father, so Gilbert, Gubar, and Sadoff either do not see them or do not consider them noteworthy. (Neither does Postlethwaite.) But similar allusions pervade all of Eliot's novels, not just Middlemarch ...
... struggle or the seduction of the father, so Gilbert, Gubar, and Sadoff either do not see them or do not consider them noteworthy. (Neither does Postlethwaite.) But similar allusions pervade all of Eliot's novels, not just Middlemarch ...
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... struggle, to his service to England: “O! this alone of earth-born trials unmans me,” he laments, “Love and the patriot in my breast at strife / Contending for supremacy.” Of course, Milton chooses England, and Angelina, who ironically ...
... struggle, to his service to England: “O! this alone of earth-born trials unmans me,” he laments, “Love and the patriot in my breast at strife / Contending for supremacy.” Of course, Milton chooses England, and Angelina, who ironically ...
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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