Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Casaubon"”.
-
Optative Regret in George Eliot's Middlemarch
… characters: Dorothea Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Tertius Lydgate, andRosamond Vincy. I claim that Eliot wrote these scenes of marital optative regret in sucha manner as to provoke her reader into experiencing optative regret for the characters,and to create in the reader a stronger sense …
-
"Taking her part in a duet" : the painful creation of the self in Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot.
… society would deny. Dorothea accepts that Casaubon's epistemology is closed to her and shifts her creative energies to Ladislaw; her success is completely vicarious. Eliot leaves Gwendolen widowed, with no man on the horizon, and unsure that she can achieve a moral Self. This study suggests …