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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Eliot, George, 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.
… theology of nineteenth century British novelist George Eliot resulted not in a dispassionate avoidance of Christianity in her narratives but in an existential engagement with the faith she had once embraced. Prior to writing her first novel, Eliot, already recognized as a leading literary critic …
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Moral Training for Nature's Egotists: Mentoring Relationships in George Eliot's Fiction
George Eliot's fiction is filled with mentoring relationships 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 …
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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 …