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Optative Regret in George Eliot's Middlemarch
… had been made in his or herpast. George Eliot's Middlemarch constantly confronts the reader with depictions ofsuch optative regret, especially in describing the man'iages of four of the novel'sprincipal characters: Dorothea Brooke, Edward Casaubon, Tertius Lydgate, andRosamond Vincy. I claim that …
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Middlemarch: Eliot's Spencerian Sociological Study of Provincial Life
<p>Through the novel<em> Middlemarch</em>, George Eliot fulfills the intention of her subtitle and uses sociological theories to conduct <em>A Study of Provincial Life</em>. Eliot's letters, journals, and various essays provide evidence of sociologist Herbert Spencer's influence on her own …
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George Eliot's Middlemarch: The Making of a Modern Marriage
… 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 modern marriage are sexuality, shifting gender roles, and a dismissal of …
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Formulating Fantasies: Marriage in Victorian England and George Eliot's Middlemarch
… novelist George Eliot. In her 1872 novel, Middlemarch, Eliot examines the lives of several characters in both courtship and marriage relationships. Through these characters, Eliot shows how many people are blinded by their own fantasies about an idealized marriage, and these fantasies …
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'Middlemarch' From Notebook to Novel: A Study of George Eliot's Creativemethod
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"Toward ""middlemarch"": The Heroine's Search For Guidance As Motif In The Earlier Novels Of George Eliot"
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Leaving Her Story: The Path to the Second Marriage in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Middlemarch
… George Eliot warns readers 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 …
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Feeling real in fiction : a study of the phenomenological mimesis of givenness in the novel.
… of Robinson Crusoe, Jude the Obscure, and Middlemarch I explore how each of these novels, in different ways, make the reader's reception of their givenness as text feel like the reception of a life-world. In Robinson Crusoe, for example, Defoe transmutes the reader's sense of his …
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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
… Prejudice (1813) and Emma (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 …
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The teller in the tale : aspects of narratorial voice in the novels of George Eliot
… on Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, and Middlemarch.
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The Comte connection : George Eliot, positivism and poetry
… subjective immortality. Silas Marner, Romola and Middlemarch are also discussed in the context of their Positivist ideas as they relate to the poems. Finally, an explanation is offered as to why George Eliot never publicly proclaimed herself a Positivist, and why, after 1874, she ceased to write …
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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
… (1862-3) and the mechanics 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 …
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From paternalism to individualism : representations of women in the nineteenth century English novel
… them. The texts of Emma, Jane Eyre, and Middlemarch are representative of traditional social norms and yet question some of the culture's dominant codes, especially in relation to paternalism and gender. What strikes me about these novels is that although the female characters are limited …
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Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Identity in the European Novel
… Question, the love triangle in George Eliot's Middlemarch explores national boundaries through a romantic Polish rebel, who not only wins the girl, but a seat in Parliament by the end of the novel. Fontane's Effi Briest, by contrast, is set in the recently unified Germany, where Poland is too …
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The Last Will and Testament in The Victorian Novel
… in Victorian fiction: in such masterpieces as Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, and Our Mutual Friend, and in such lesser works as Henry Kingsley's Ravenshoe and Rider Haggard's Mr. Meeson's Will. The dissertation focuses on those fictional wills for which we know somthing of the testator's motives, …
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Moral Training for Nature's Egotists: Mentoring Relationships in George Eliot's Fiction
… in her brother's arms. In Chapter 7 I examine Middlemarch, whose lack of a successful standard mentoring relationship contributes to its dark vision. Chapter 8 contains a reading of Romola which interprets Romola, the only mentee whose story takes place outside nineteenth-century England, as a …
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Amazonian Vision: Representations of Women Artists in Victorian Fiction
… George Eliot’s 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” …
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