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George Eliot's dialogue with John Milton

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. --From publisher's description
eBook, English, ©2003
University of Missouri Press, Columbia, ©2003
Literature
1 online resource (xii, 278 pages)
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Eliot and the stories told about Milton
John Milton : object of the erotic gaze and father of "serviceable" daughters
Milton and Romola's fathers
Milton and Dorothea's husbands
Eliot and the stories Milton told
Testing the ways of Milton in Middlemarch
Eliot's challenge to Milton in Adam Bede
"The freedom of my mind" : Maggie's trials and the Lady of Comus
"A wider vision" : Felix Holt and the stories of Samson and Esther
"Great benefactors of mankind, deliverers" : Paradise Regained in Daniel Deronda
Conclusion: Maggie, Mary Ann, George, and their books
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English