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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Silas Marner"”.
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The Comte connection : George Eliot, positivism and poetry
… Being of Humanity and 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 …
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Moral Training for Nature's Egotists: Mentoring Relationships in George Eliot's Fiction
… two, Mary Garth-Fred Vincy and Dolly Winthrop-Silas Marner, are exceptions as Eliot portrays in them a Wordsworthian reconciliation with nature. In Chapter 6 I focus on Maggie Tulliver, a mentee with three failed mentors and two antimentors. Maggie chooses regression over growth as symbolized …
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Dispossession, Adoption, and (Dis)Inheritance: The Sympathetic Sublime in George Eliot’s Fiction
… in her novels. 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 …
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'Spells That Have Lost Their Virtue': The Mythology and Psychology of Shame in the Early Novels of George Eliot
… Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner, resist or rewrite English cultural myths that embody shame as a method of social control, especially myths from the Bible related to the doctrine of election. Eliot employs a two-level structure suggested by her reading of Feuerbach, …