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The Widening Vision And Undying Hope In The Spanish Gypsy, Miyuki Amano

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

On 20 May 1839, young Mary Ann Evans wrote to her close friend, Maria Lewis, about her 'oscillating judgment' on a religious matter: 'On no subject do I veer to all points of the compass more frequently than on the nature of the visible church. I am powerfully attracted in a certain direction but when I am about to settle there, counter assertions shake me from my position'.1 This confession foreshadows a characteristic pattern of thinking of the later George Eliot. Her keen insight enables her to grasp the validity of multiple perspectives, and at the same time prevents her …

The Thirty-Third George Eliot Memorial Lecture, 2004 'School-Time': George Eliot And Education, Dinah Birch

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

In George Eliot's first piece of published fiction, the hero - if that's the right word for the hapless Reverend Amos Barton - is no advertisement for the conventional schooling of a middle-class Englishman. Though he has managed to struggle through the university degree he needs to qualify him for a clerical life, his years as a student have not made an intellectual of Amos: 'Mr. Barton had not the gift of perfect accuracy in English orthography and syntax, which was unfortunate, as he was known not to be a Hebrew scholar, and not in the least suspected of being …

Annual Report 2004, Kathleen Adams

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Our year never gets off to an exciting start because the first event is the Annual General Meeting but the 2004 one was rather different. The business meeting was completed swiftly as there was no change to the Council or to the officers. There was still some concern about the positions of Chairman and Secretary as there were no nominations for either post although it was known that both were eager to be replaced. The meeting was very well attended but this was obviously because we followed the business meeting with a visit from Louis Marks who produced the BBC …

Aspects Of 'Indefiniteness' In George Eliot's Middlemarch, Omar Sabbagh

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

In this article I will be teasing out the significance of the various uses and senses of 'indefiniteness' in Middlemarch. Whether it is in relationships between other characters, or between Dorothea and other characters, or between Dorothea and herself, or indeed between Dorothea and the novel or the reader, it will be seen that indefiniteness often stands in for unfavourable conceptions of abstraction and externality, and that all contribute to disharmony in Eliot's rendering. This disharmony is resolved by the end of the novel, and it seems to me that this particular resolution is one of the novel's main themes. …

Address At Wreath-Laying In The George Eliot Memorial Garden, Nuneaton 13 June 2004, Nada Lyons

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

I am honoured and delighted to be here today to pay tribute to my great-great-grandfather, George Henry Lewes, and to George Eliot in the year that marks the 150th anniversary of the beginning of their life together. From an early age they have been part of my life. At home I sat on a sofa that belonged to them. Books by and about them lined our shelves. And occasionally biographers would visit my mother when they were researching their books. I was always very proud of Lewes's wide achievements as a writer and literary critic, scientist and amateur actor, raconteur …

Review Of Monomania: The Flight From Everyday Life In Literature And Art, Marina Van Zuylen

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

The obvious monomaniac in Middlemarch is Casaubon, determined and devoted to writing his 'Key to All Mythologies'. This, his idee fixe, orders his world and certainly his relationship with his wife Dorothea, who seems an unwitting victim of his obsession and his coldness. But in Marina van Zuylen's Monomania, Dorothea becomes the focus of attention: in a chapter on Middlemarch, Miss Brooke's persistent 'urge to sublimate' her will to Casaubon's is read as monomania, with compelling results.

Van Zuylen's interdisciplinary study surveys incarnations of monomania beginning in nineteenth-century Europe; she constructs monomania as an obsession whose psychical function is to …

Address At Wreath-Laying In Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey 24 June 2004, Gabriel Woolf

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150 years ago, in 1854, George Eliot, still Marian Evans at that point, and George Henry Lewes made the momentous decision to live together. They did so for 24 years until Lewes died and, in the first five years together, made literary history. We know they couldn't marry, we know that neither of them was regarded as physically attractive but, to quote an apposite line from a Shakespeare sonnet: Let me not to the marriage of true minds, admit impediment. Not even in this place.

The inspirational meeting of such minds and the rich love the two bore each other …

Review Of George Eliot & Middlemarch, Tim Dolin, George Eliot

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Both books under review appear in series that aim to give new currency to texts and authors by the provision of critical and cultural context. The implied audience is not simply the old 'sixth form and junior undergraduate' cohorts: there is a presumption of an informed wider readership which appreciates and in some cases requires assistance from critical commentary and scholarly apparatus. Such guidance is appropriately supplied in accordance with their respective series briefs by Gregory Maertz in his edition of Middlemarch and Tim Dolin in his study of George Eliot. Maertz makes a distinct scholarly contribution to study of …

The George Eliot Review: Journal Of The George Eliot Fellowship 2005 No. 36, Beryl Gray, John Rignall

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CONTENTS

Notes on Contributors .......................................................... 5

ARTICLES Dinah Birch: 'School-Time': George Eliot and Education (The Thirty-Second George Eliot Memorial Lecture, 16 October 2004) ................................... 7

Ceri Hunter: Moving Beyond Signs: The Crisis of Language in Daniel Deronda (Prize Essay) ................................................................................ 17

Leonee Ormond: George Eliot and the Victorian Art World ........................... 25

Bonnie Shannon McMullen: Legitimate Plots, Private Lots in Felix Holt and Daniel Deronda ........................................................................................................ .39

Omar Sabbagh: Aspects of 'Indefiniteness' in Middlemarch............................................... 46

Richard Winter: Romantic Love as Spiritual Companionship? A Buddhist Re-reading of George Eliot ......................................................................... 53

Miyuki Amano: The Widening Vision and Undying Hope in The …

Moving Beyond Signs: The Crisis Of Language In Daniel Deronda, Ceri Hunter

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

It is no critical initiative to point out that George Eliot's Daniel Deronda (1876) plays with the premises of realist narrative art.! Previous readings have, however, tended to engage only tangentially with the way in which the novel scrutinises the use of language? This omission of linguistic context is curious, given that Daniel Deronda is set during a decade which placed the Victorian ruling classes' confidence in the English language under strain. The 1860s teemed with words. There were more English speakers than ever before, owing to population increase and dispersal. The English language was democratised by the 1867 reform …

Review Of The Effective Protagonist In The Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Scott, Bronte, Eliot, Wilde, Terence Dawson

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Let me declare my critical prejudices from the outset. Terence Dawson's study is a work of psychological criticism, of post-Jungian criticism to be exact, and I am frequently left unconvinced by such critical inquiry. As Dawson admits, 'it is often held that the weakness of psychological analyses of literary works is that they require the reader to accept their premises. This both is, and is not so.' In the case of Dawson's book, I can't help but feel that it is so, and by the end of a dense, if often suggestive, study, I remained unpersuaded as to the merits …

George Eliot And The Victorian Art World, Leonee Ormond

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Reading the letters and diaries of Victorian practitioners of the different arts reminds us that their social world differed markedly from that of artists today. In nineteenth-century London the number of people involved was sufficiently small for artists of all kinds to meet each other regularly.

Among the public functions at which such meetings could take place were the various events at the Royal Academy, held in the National Gallery building in Trafalgar Square until 1868 and, after that, in the Academy's grand new residence at Burlington House in Piccadilly. The Private View of the summer exhibition in May was …

Legitimate Plots, Private Lots In Felix Holt And Daniel Deronda, Bonnie Shannon Mcmullen

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A preoccupation with the idea of home was central to George Eliot's fiction from its beginnings until its end. In Felix Holt and Daniel Deronda, however, this theme is developed in terms that involve legal complexities that have embroiled her characters, perplexed her readers, and sent the author to seek advice and reassurance from the barrister Frederic Harrison. Esther Lyon has a 'right in remainder'! in a property, while Harold Transome has 'a reversion tantamount to possession' (p. 284), Sir Hugo Mallinger is a tenant for life, his nephew Grandcourt a tenant in tail. These intricacies of plot have puzzled …

George Eliot Birthday Lucheon, 21 November 2004 The Toast To The Immortal Memory, Rosemary Ashton

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Ladies and gentlemen, this is a special year because it is ISO years since George Eliot and G. H. Lewes began to live together openly. 22 November 1854 was her thirty-fifth birthday. Where were she and Lewes? What were they doing?

They were in Berlin, having moved on from Weimar on 3 November. They had left England on 19 July, the day Marian Evans sent her famous telegram to her Coventry friends Charles and Cara Bray and Sara Hennell:

Dear Friends - all three

I have only time to say good bye and God bless you. Poste Restante, Weimar

for …

Mosaic: Exploring Patterns In Literature: Volume 2: Virtual Voyages, Institute For The Development Of Gifted Education, Ricks Center For Gifted Children, University Of Denver

Ricks Curriculum Units Series

Virtual Voyages is an integrated thematic unit developed to weave together the academic strands of geography and literature into a single curriculum that fosters appreciation, awareness, and understanding of cultures around the world. The individualized research format meets the needs of gifted students to work within a particular area of passion, to work at an individualized pace, and to work with depth and breadth on projects that especially engage their interests.

Intertextuality And Ideology: Jane Austen's 'Pride And Prejudice' And James Fordyce's 'Sermons To Young Women', Laura Vorachek

English Faculty Publications

In Jane Austen’s Art of Memory and other works, Jocelyn Harris has demonstrated the importance of Austen’s literary contexts for understanding and appreciating Austen’s art. One context for understanding Pride and Prejudice is the conduct book it mentions by name, James Fordyce’s Sermons to Young Women. Mr. Collins chooses it to read aloud to the Bennet girls, and when Lydia interrupts him, he responds: “I have often observed how little young ladies are interested by books of a serious stamp, though written solely for their benefit.” I would argue that reading Pride and Prejudice next to Fordyce’s Sermons reveals that …

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Representing A Bigger Middle Ages, Carol Neel

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Barbara H. Rosenwein. A Short History of the Middle Ages. Orchard Park, NY: Broadview Press, 2002. 362 pages. $42.95.

Colin McEvedy. The New Penguin Atlas of Medieval History. London: Penguin Books, 1992. 112 pages. $13.95.

Patrick J. Geary. The Myth of Nations: The Medieval Origins of Europe. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2002. 261 pages. $19.95.

Exile As Severance, Alexandru Boldor

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Exile is a phenomenon probably as ancient as humanity itself, and one of the oldest topics in universal literature. The great majority of its variants (political, economical, social,) are founded on the idea of "forced displacement." Consequently, most often exile is reflected in literary creations in discourses dominated by a sentiment of loss. However, in some cases exile is not seen as a tragic event, but rather as an opportunity for intellectual growth - as attested by a number of authors who have chosen voluntarily to exile themselves. The rationale behind this occurrence is a mental process I called "severance." …

Beyond Binaries : Rereading Yang Lian's "Norlang" And "Banpo", Jacob Edmond

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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"邊城的荒野留下少年的笛聲" : 1930年代北平"前線詩人"的城市記憶與文化心態, Jieyu Zhang

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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The Born-Again Forest : A Preliminary Chapter In The Post-Misty Development Of Avant-Garde Poetry In China, Michael Day

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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里爾克在中國 : 傳播與影響初探, Songjian Zhang

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Poshek Fu And David Desser Eds. The Cinema Of Hong Kong : History, Arts, Identity; C. M. Yau Ed. At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema In A Borderless World, Lori Hitchcock

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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A Night Of Their Own : Gender Identity In Women's Poetry After Mao, Hong, Jeanne Zhang

Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 現代中文文學學報

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Language In The Silent Space: Virginia Woolf's To The Lighthouse, Elizabeth Hirt

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Redefining Ars Moriendi In J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord Of The Rings, Heather Harman

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Front Matter, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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Contents, Tom Mack, Ph.D.

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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The Greater Of Two Evils: Distinguishing Between Machiavellians And Tyrants In Shakespeare's "The Rape Of Lucrece" And Milton's Paradise Lost, Mark Crisp

The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English

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