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Deciphering the Real through Artifice: A Study of the Gaze in Victorian Art
This thesis explores how the gaze is utilized to find hidden truth in Charlotte Brontë's first novel, The Professor, the early work of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and George Eliot's novella, "The Lifted Veil." Brontë's narrator and protagonist of The Professor is an obsessive gazer who decodes …
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Dispossession, Adoption, and (Dis)Inheritance: The Sympathetic Sublime in George Eliot’s Fiction
<p>The aim of this dissertation is to explore the promise and the peril of George Eliot’s sympathetic sublime in her fictional writing. To arrive at this designation for Eliot’s literary project, the dissertation synthesizes three distinct yet interconnected strands within Eliot scholarship: her …