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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... mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n” (PL 1.254–55), Silva boasts, on taking the gypsy oath, I will elect my deeds, and be the liege Not of my birth, but of that good alone I have discerned ...
... mind is its own place, and in itself / Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n” (PL 1.254–55), Silva boasts, on taking the gypsy oath, I will elect my deeds, and be the liege Not of my birth, but of that good alone I have discerned ...
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... mind is susceptible , ” and in the “ ability to give them out anew in intensified expression . ” Yet , at forty- eight , George Eliot could not resist attempting a “ great subject , ” such as 6. Sylvia Kasey Marks , “ A Brief Glance at ...
... mind is susceptible , ” and in the “ ability to give them out anew in intensified expression . ” Yet , at forty- eight , George Eliot could not resist attempting a “ great subject , ” such as 6. Sylvia Kasey Marks , “ A Brief Glance at ...
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... mind intently studying both Milton's poet- ic practice and the political and religious context in which he composed his arguments against a national church, his defenses of regicide, and his tragedy of Samson, the strong man destined to ...
... mind intently studying both Milton's poet- ic practice and the political and religious context in which he composed his arguments against a national church, his defenses of regicide, and his tragedy of Samson, the strong man destined to ...
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... mind ” and their “ intensified expression , ” which in 1848 she had judged , in opposition to the Miltonic sublime , as the source of true art . Ironically , in these “ gentler emotions ” and in the English Mid- lands of her childhood ...
... mind ” and their “ intensified expression , ” which in 1848 she had judged , in opposition to the Miltonic sublime , as the source of true art . Ironically , in these “ gentler emotions ” and in the English Mid- lands of her childhood ...
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... mind can compre- hend / Thir number , or the wisdom infinite / That brought them forth ” ( PL 3.702–7 ) . But Eliot's narrator presents a world of coincidence , not di- vine providential order — a world where a swaggerer with a scrap of ...
... mind can compre- hend / Thir number , or the wisdom infinite / That brought them forth ” ( PL 3.702–7 ) . But Eliot's narrator presents a world of coincidence , not di- vine providential order — a world where a swaggerer with a scrap of ...
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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