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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"mill on the floss"”.
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Gender tragedy in George Eliot's "Mill on the Floss"
This thesis centers around the gender roles present during the Victorian era and how George Eliot examined these roles in Mill on the Floss. She did so through her representations of Tom and Maggie Tulliver and by examining how each of these characters deal with the respective roles for his or her …
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A Gentlemen's Benevolence: Symptoms of Class, Gender, and Social Change in Emma, Nicholas Nickleby, and The Mill on the Floss
Austen, Dickens, and Eliot each responded to discussions of their time concerning class, gender, and social change. One of the ways they addressed these issues, and sought to find solutions to the problems facing their culture, was through benevolence. Knightley, in Emma, uses benevolence as a …
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A poetics of Jesus: a/christology in the early fiction of George Eliot
This thesis argues for a reading of George Eliot's early fiction - Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, and The Mill on the Floss - as an exercise in developing what I have termed a poetics of Jesus. This constitutes a poetics that is a space of continual clearing (lichtung) and an ultimate …
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'Spells That Have Lost Their Virtue': The Mythology and Psychology of Shame in the Early Novels of George Eliot
… early novels Scenes of Clerical 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 …
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George Eliot’s Generative Economies: transactional maternal sacrifice in social realist fiction, 1853-1894
This project argues for a reconsideration of the importance of the maternal body in mid-to-late nineteenth-century social realist fiction, taking George Eliot’s work as its primary case study. Using recent work in sacrifice studies as a framework, I illustrate the ways in which maternal sacrifice …
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Some sociolinguistic aspects of second language teaching and learning of Xhosa
… utterances made by a character in George Eliot's Mill on the Floss. When Mr Tulliver uttered the above he was, unconsciously though it may have been, making a statement about how language operates in society. This, of course, is putting it in a nutshell. In fact, what Mr Tulliver was saying, was …
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Monomania: The Life and Death of a Psychiatric Idea in Nineteenth-Century Fiction 1836-1860
This thesis is about the nineteenth-century psychiatric idea, monomania, in medical, literary and popular discourse from 1836-1860. I examine patient case-notes from the Bethlem, York Retreat and Surrey County Pauper Asylum to establish that the experiential or ‘real’ narratives of monomaniacs …