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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... Vision " Felix Holt and the Stories of Samson and Esther 189 9. " Great Benefactors of Mankind , Deliverers " Paradise Regained in Daniel Deronda 216 10. Conclusion Maggie , Mary Ann , George , and Their Books 247 Bibliography 261 Index ...
... Vision " Felix Holt and the Stories of Samson and Esther 189 9. " Great Benefactors of Mankind , Deliverers " Paradise Regained in Daniel Deronda 216 10. Conclusion Maggie , Mary Ann , George , and Their Books 247 Bibliography 261 Index ...
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... vision to unite her scattered race. With or without her heroic choice to obey, she imagines how the dire hours Burthened with destiny—the death of hopes Darkening long generations, . . . ... sweep along In their aërial ocean measureless ...
... vision to unite her scattered race. With or without her heroic choice to obey, she imagines how the dire hours Burthened with destiny—the death of hopes Darkening long generations, . . . ... sweep along In their aërial ocean measureless ...
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... whom she returned with fresh vision at the pinnacle of her career . * * * 8. See Eliot , Eliot's Middlemarch Notebooks , 156 , n . 10 . But Eliot's reading of Milton did not end with Middlemarch 14 George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton.
... whom she returned with fresh vision at the pinnacle of her career . * * * 8. See Eliot , Eliot's Middlemarch Notebooks , 156 , n . 10 . But Eliot's reading of Milton did not end with Middlemarch 14 George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton.
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... vision by transforming Milton's words and vision . But Milton's language was also , for Eliot and her readers , unmistakably authoritative discourse . By analyzing Eliot's technique of putting Milton- ic language in dialogue with itself ...
... vision by transforming Milton's words and vision . But Milton's language was also , for Eliot and her readers , unmistakably authoritative discourse . By analyzing Eliot's technique of putting Milton- ic language in dialogue with itself ...
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... a reprise of her first vision of love . Herself unseen , she gazes on the blind , old man in defeat who once asked her to be “ my solace , my re- ward ” ( Bulwer - Lytton , 278 ) . 38 George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton.
... a reprise of her first vision of love . Herself unseen , she gazes on the blind , old man in defeat who once asked her to be “ my solace , my re- ward ” ( Bulwer - Lytton , 278 ) . 38 George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton.
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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