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Rereading George Eliot : changing responses to her experiments in life / Bernard J. Paris.
Van Pelt Library PR4692.P74 P37 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Paris, Bernard J.
- Series:
- SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Knowledge and learning--Psychology.
- Eliot, George.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880.
- Psychology.
- Psychoanalysis and literature--England--History--19th century.
- Psychoanalysis and literature.
- Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Psychological fiction, English.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Daniel Deronda.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Middlemarch.
- Eliot, George, 1819-1880--Characters.
- Psychology in literature.
- History.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 220 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]
- Summary:
- A volume in the SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture Henry Sussman, editor
- Contents:
- Chapter 1. No Longer the Same Interpreter 1
- Reading George Eliot Then and Now 1
- A Psychological Perspective 6
- Rhetoric Versus Mimesis 13
- Critical Controversies 16
- Chapter 2. "An Angel Beguiled": Dorothea Brooke 23
- Calvin Bedient on Middlemarch 23
- Rhetorical Treatment of Dorothea 26
- Dorothea as a Mimetic Character 31
- Dorothea's "Education": Casaubon 36
- Dorothea and Will 43
- Saving Rosamond 48
- Dorothea's Sad Sacrifice 54
- Chapter 3. The Two Selves of Tertius Lydgate 59
- Lydgate as Foil to Dorothea 59
- Prelude to Lydgate 60
- Lydgate's Two Selves 63
- Lydgate's Demoralization 67
- Lydgate and Rosamond 73
- Lydgate's Sad Sacrifice 77
- Chapter 4. "A Dreadful Plain Girl": Mary Garth 81
- A Foil to the Egoists 81
- Mary's Hard Life 84
- Mary and Fred 91
- Fred Vincy 98
- That Happy Ending 104
- Chapter 5. "This Problematic Sylph": Gwendolen Harleth 111
- Great Achievements and Great Problems 111
- A Confusing Picture of Gwendolen 113
- More Versions of Gwendolen 119
- Gwendolen's Sorrows 122
- Enter Grandcourt 132
- Chapter 6. "The Crushed Penitent": Gwendolen's Transformation 139
- Gwendolen's Terror and Guilt 140
- Captain Davilow and Mrs. Glasher 146
- Postmarital Miseries 150
- Chapter 7. Gwendolen and Daniel: A Therapeutic Relationship? 157
- Critical Disagreements 157
- Is Deronda's Influence Transformative? 159
- Gwendolen and Grandcourt's Death 167
- Deronda Not Gwendolen's Therapist 169
- Gwendolen's New Existence 174
- Chapter 8. Deronda the Deliverer 179
- An Imagined Human Being 179
- Daniel's Peculiar Position 182
- Search for a Vocation 190
- Deronda's Ambivalence 196
- The Failed Relationship with Gwendolen 203.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791458334
- 0791458342
- OCLC:
- 50737282
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