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University of New Orleans
George Eliot's Middlemarch: The Making of a Modern Marriage
Abstract
dc:description.abstractIn this thesis I examine the evolving social and personal attitudes about 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 social class as the major factor in choosing a partner. In order to achieve this end, I apply close textual analysis as well as a New Historical approach to examine how Middlemarch is conditioned by its historical context.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- M.A.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Thesis
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- English
- Year
- 2010
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Kelly, Katherine Marie
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- White, Leslie
- Cooke, John
- Doll, Daniel
Subjects
dc:subject × 5Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1173
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2156