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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Adam Bede"”.
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A poetics of Jesus: a/christology in the early fiction of George Eliot
… Eliot's early fiction - Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, and The Mill on the Floss - as an exercise in developing what I have termed a poetics of Jesus. This constitutes a poetics that is a space of continual clearing (lichtung) and an ultimate deconstruction of barriers that inhibit the nexus …
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'Spells That Have Lost Their Virtue': The Mythology and Psychology of Shame in the Early Novels of George Eliot
… Eliot's early novels Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner, resist or rewrite English cultural myths that embody shame as a method of social control, especially myths from the Bible related to the doctrine of election. Eliot employs a two-level structure …
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The teller in the tale : aspects of narratorial voice in the novels of George Eliot
… concentrates mainly on Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, and Middlemarch.
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Victorian literature and historical time: Genre and historicity after Walter Scott
… Amours de Voyage (1849; 1858), George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859), and Thomas Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), it demonstrates how genre-driven temporal experiments capture a sense of historical movement through creative figurations of narrative time."
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"The Sudden Thrill of That Change": Framing George Eliot's Social Vision
… as well, as the provincial chronicler of <em>Adam Bede</em> becomes the student of the future in <em>Daniel Deronda</em>.</p>
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Between Wildness and Art: Ecology and Agency in Victorian Literature
… in several key texts. George Eliot's character, Adam Bede, is a literal and metaphoric steward, taking both care and responsibility for the non-human world. Gerard Manley Hopkins's theologically-inflected journals and poetry deploy the notion of human sinfulness to call for accountability for the …
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Wandering Women: Sexual and Social Stigma in the Mid-Victorian Novel
… d'Urbervilles, Hetty Sorrel of George Eliot's Adam Bede, and Lady Dedlock of Dickens' Bleak House. Although the Wandering Woman's journey may resemble a variation of the bildungsroman tradition, it is not, because unlike male characters in this genre, women have limited opportunities. Wandering …
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George Eliot’s Generative Economies: transactional maternal sacrifice in social realist fiction, 1853-1894
… before turning to an analysis of infanticide in Adam Bede (1859). The final chapter reads George Moore’s rewriting of these Victorian stories of taboo maternity in Esther Waters as a pathbreaking text in the renegotiation between representation and realism that came to define twentieth-century …
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A theology of suffering love : a critique of the fictional embodiments of divine compassion in the novels of George Eliot.
… in selected Eliot novels—Dinah Morris in Adam Bede, Romola (title character) and Dorthea Brooke in Middlemarch. The sixth chapter addresses the theology of the Maurice who, like Eliot, was cognizant of the Enlightenment criticisms of Christianity yet remained orthodox in his treatment of …
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“Bound together by a web”: Victorian literary and cultural conceptions of human-nature entanglement
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms