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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Dorothea Brooke"”.
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Optative Regret in George Eliot's Middlemarch
… of four of the novel'sprincipal 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 …
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Leaving Her Story: The Path to the Second Marriage in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Middlemarch
… in her prelude to <em>Middlemarch</em> that Dorothea Brooke will never fulfill all her saintly capabilities because of the unaccommodating social structure of her time. She marries an elderly scholar in the hopes of being enlightened intellectually and spiritually by the alliance. Instead she …
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George Eliot's Middlemarch: The Making of a Modern Marriage
In this thesis I examine the evolving social and personal attitudes about marriage and love as depicted in George Eliot's Middlemarch by arguing that Eliot anticipates modern marriages by critiquing traditional Victorian marital values. For the purposes of this analysis, the applicable aspects of …