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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Daniel Deronda"”.
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The changing role and portrayal of 'the individual' in historical context in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Emma, George Eliot's Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, and Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge and Tess of the d'Urbervilles
… (1816), George Eliot's Middlemarch (1872) and Daniel Deronda (1876), and Thomas Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge (1886) and Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891) are analysed in depth. The discussion focuses on how the social and historical context shapes the development of theme, character and plot in …
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Dispossession, Adoption, and (Dis)Inheritance: The Sympathetic Sublime in George Eliot’s Fiction
… The remaining chapters on Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda examine Eliot’s sublime experiment through two inheritance narratives which advance the development of protagonists who are socially isolated, and who transcend that isolation through an absorbing sublime connection with a human …
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Objects, People, and Landscapes of Terror: Considering the Sublime through the Gothic Mode in Late 19th Century Novels
… two involves a close reading of George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda (1876) to examine how the Jewish male is an agent for prompting females to experience terror as sublimity. In the last chapter, I investigate Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) to show how Dracula tries to assert a perverse sublimity …
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"The Sudden Thrill of That Change": Framing George Eliot's Social Vision
… becomes the student of the future in <em>Daniel Deronda</em>.</p>
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Symptomatic writings: prefigurations of Freudian theories and models of the mind in the fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins and George Eliot
… of satisfaction in Middlemarch (1871-2) and Daniel Deronda (1876); all these concepts find roots in nineteenth-or pre-nineteenth-century spiritual or scientific thought, and prefigure Freud's Project. The association of ideas, a basic foundation of psychoanalysis, is discussed with reference …
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George Eliot’s Generative Economies: transactional maternal sacrifice in social realist fiction, 1853-1894
… Elizabeth Gaskell’s Ruth (1853). It then reads Daniel Deronda (1876) as a proto-Freudian fragmentation point for the novel form, 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 …
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Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
… use of contrasting characters in Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda to show how Eliot’s women must step outside of the frame as art objects and wield “moral vision” to realize her vision of the artist as an instrument of human sympathy. Chapter three examines the “Amazonian vision” adopted by women …
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"Taking her part in a duet" : the painful creation of the self in Austen, Gaskell, and Eliot.
… Focusing on Emma, Mary Barton, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, this dissertation explores the way the heroines expend their creative energies to achieve an autonomous Self acceptable in a patriarchal society that grants them little but reflected male status. Whether they are victims of unwitting …
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The Law and the Lady: Consent and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… in George Eliot's "Janet's Repentance" and <em>Daniel Deronda,</em> George Egerton's "Virgin Soil," and John Galsworthy's <em>The Man of Property</em> and <em>In Chancery,</em>5) separations and restitution of conjugal rights in Anthony Trollope's<em>Phineas Fin </em>n and <em>Phineas …
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Round the Corner: Pawnbroking in the Victorian Novel
… Eliot's <italic>Middlemarch</italic> and <italic>Daniel Deronda</italic>, in which the pawn shop, where goods are received, identified, and evaluated, becomes a site for the exploration of unknown or hidden aspects of identity. I focus particular attention on the pawn shop's importance to the …
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Centers of Consciousness: Protagonism and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… arresting autobiography, to George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876), in which readerly affections are split between a Jewish hero, an egoistic heroine, and a narrator's attempt to relate "everything" to "everything else," novels that are far from generic outliers fit uneasily into scaled models …