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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... woman—wrestled with the angel of Milton, perhaps even more than the angel of God. Both rejected the religious orthodoxy of their eras; both shocked contemporaries by defying conventional notions about marriage; both read widely in Latin ...
... woman—wrestled with the angel of Milton, perhaps even more than the angel of God. Both rejected the religious orthodoxy of their eras; both shocked contemporaries by defying conventional notions about marriage; both read widely in Latin ...
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... woman—first, under the tutelage of the evangelical Maria Lewis at Mrs. Wallington's School in Nuneaton and the Miss Franklins at their school in Coventry, then on her own—Mary Ann had so internalized Milton's poetry that her letters are ...
... woman—first, under the tutelage of the evangelical Maria Lewis at Mrs. Wallington's School in Nuneaton and the Miss Franklins at their school in Coventry, then on her own—Mary Ann had so internalized Milton's poetry that her letters are ...
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... woman ventures to judge Milton by her own evolving standards of value. In an 1848 epistolary discussion with the Independent minister John Sibree about what defines the highest art, she argues, I cannot assent to the notion . . . that ...
... woman ventures to judge Milton by her own evolving standards of value. In an 1848 epistolary discussion with the Independent minister John Sibree about what defines the highest art, she argues, I cannot assent to the notion . . . that ...
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... and evaluating the presence of Milton in later texts has been Freudian psychoanalysis. In their pioneering work of feminist criticism, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination Introduction 21.
... and evaluating the presence of Milton in later texts has been Freudian psychoanalysis. In their pioneering work of feminist criticism, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination Introduction 21.
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... women writers like Eliot a debilitating “anxiety of authorship.” Eliot's response to this anxiety was, they contend ... women's moral and intellectual development provide a more applicable paradigm for interpreting the presence of Milton ...
... women writers like Eliot a debilitating “anxiety of authorship.” Eliot's response to this anxiety was, they contend ... women's moral and intellectual development provide a more applicable paradigm for interpreting the presence of 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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