The Way George Eliot Read Paradise Lost: Raphael and the Temptation of Speculative Thought
Through repeated quotations and allusions over the course of her novel Middlemarch, George Eliot suggests a relationship between that work and John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost. While this connection has received some critical attention during the past two decades, I contend that it runs deeper...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2013
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2013, Volume: 62, Issue: 3, Pages: 355-367 |
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| Summary: | Through repeated quotations and allusions over the course of her novel Middlemarch, George Eliot suggests a relationship between that work and John Milton’s epic poem, Paradise Lost. While this connection has received some critical attention during the past two decades, I contend that it runs deeper, and carries greater significance, than has yet been recognized. Through an analysis of the major epistemic course of each plot, I argue that Middlemarch is an attempt to carry Milton’s account of faith and reason into the nineteenth century. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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