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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"1819-1880 Criticism and interpretation"”.
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A theology of suffering love : a critique of the fictional embodiments of divine compassion in the novels of George Eliot.
… already recognized as a leading literary critic and translator, had adopted the empiricist and positivist philosophies of the elite intellectual circles of British society. Like many of her contemporaries, Eliot adhered to a liberal Christology advocating Jesus Christ as a moral exemplar whom …
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Moral Training for Nature's Egotists: Mentoring Relationships in George Eliot's Fiction
… which generally consist of a wise male mentor and a foolish, egotistic female mentee. The mentoring narratives relate the conversion of the mentee from narcissism to selfless devotion to the community. By retaining the Christian value of self-abnegation and the Christian tendency to devalue …
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"Taking her part in a duet" : the painful creation of the self in Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot.
Contemporary feminist criticism, which focuses on recovering lost texts by women and rereading women's texts traditionally absorbed in and obscured by the male canon, bears broadening to incorporate insights into the female psyche that come from research in other disciplines. Anthropological …
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From paternalism to individualism : representations of women in the nineteenth century English novel
… women authors, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot, explore similar themes of the individual, particularly the young woman, in relation to a hierarchical, patriarchal society, more specifically a crumbling paternalist society. My focus is on three Victorian novels' representations …