George Eliot's Dialogue with John MiltonUniversity of Missouri Press, 2003 - 278 Seiten "In George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton, Anna K. Nardo details how Eliot reimagined Milton's life and art to write epic novels for an age of unbelief. Nardo demonstrates that Eliot directly engaged Milton's poetry, prose, and the well-known legends of his life - transposing, reframing, regendering, and thus testing both the stories told about Milton and the stories Milton told."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... allusions to “On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,” “L'Allegro” and “Il Penseroso,” Comus, and Paradise Lost. For example, in an 1840 letter that dutifully reports on her current studies, she writes, “Item: a fragment of Milton's Ode on ...
... allusions to “On the Morning of Christ's Nativity,” “L'Allegro” and “Il Penseroso,” Comus, and Paradise Lost. For example, in an 1840 letter that dutifully reports on her current studies, she writes, “Item: a fragment of Milton's Ode on ...
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... allusion that carries the same weight as her previous biblical ref- erences , Mary Ann quotes the lost Lady of Comus , who prays , “ Eye me blest Providence , and square my trial / To my proportion'd strength ” ( Comus 329–30 ) . Soon ...
... allusion that carries the same weight as her previous biblical ref- erences , Mary Ann quotes the lost Lady of Comus , who prays , “ Eye me blest Providence , and square my trial / To my proportion'd strength ” ( Comus 329–30 ) . Soon ...
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... allusion to Paradise Lost: end by letting us into the secret of usurpations and. Who shall tell what may be the effect of writing? If it happens to have been cut in stone, though it lie face downmost for ages on a forsaken beach, or ...
... allusion to Paradise Lost: end by letting us into the secret of usurpations and. Who shall tell what may be the effect of writing? If it happens to have been cut in stone, though it lie face downmost for ages on a forsaken beach, or ...
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... allusion has a multiple effect . The distance between Milton's an- gels and the likes of the decidedly “ low ” Rigg and Raffles renders the episode comic , almost mock - heroic . Still , behind the humor , the allusion allows the ...
... allusion has a multiple effect . The distance between Milton's an- gels and the likes of the decidedly “ low ” Rigg and Raffles renders the episode comic , almost mock - heroic . Still , behind the humor , the allusion allows the ...
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... allusion to Uriel . There , we smile at the distance between Milton's exalted angels and the likes of Raf- fles and Rigg , all the while we sense the coming catastrophe prefigured in Satan's learning the whereabouts of Adam and Eve ...
... allusion to Uriel . There , we smile at the distance between Milton's exalted angels and the likes of Raf- fles and Rigg , all the while we sense the coming catastrophe prefigured in Satan's learning the whereabouts of Adam and Eve ...
Inhalt
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Milton and Romolas Fathers | 66 |
Milton and Dorotheas Husbands | 83 |
Testing the Ways of Milton in Middlemarch | 111 |
Eliots Challenge to Milton in Adam Bede | 135 |
The Freedom of My Mind | 166 |
A Wider Vision | 189 |
Great Benefactors of Mankind Deliverers | 216 |
Conclusion | 247 |
Bibliography | 261 |
Index | 275 |
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