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Outside The Pale: Cultural Exclusion. Gender Difference And The Victorian Woman Writer, Elsie B. Michie

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

Why does Dorothea fall apart at the sight of Rome? Elsie B. Michie's answer to this question is that the Rome scenes in Middlemarch stage a drama of female cultural exclusion. Dorothea's distressed response to the ruined 'city of visible history' represents the female spectator's confrontation with a concept of cultural 'wholeness' that implicitly excludes her. To explore this drama, and place it historically, Michie makes a series of imaginative and illuminating connections which are characteristic of her method in this book. She examines Freud's account of a parallel dream, in which he desperately wanted to go to Rome, but …

Review Of George Eliot And The Conventions Of Popular Women's Fiction: A Serious Literary Response To The "Silly Novels By Lady Novelists", Susan Rowland Tush

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As Susan Rowland Tush notes, recent critics have given considerable attention (often rather harshly) to George Eliot's essay 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists', which was published in the Westminster Review in October 1856. Among these critics are some who argue that Eliot undermines the position of women by calling a certain class of novels 'silly'. Tush points out, quite rightly, that Eliot does not apply the term casually or universally; she is very specific about the qualities she considers silliness, and she praises Harriet Martineau, Currer Bell, and Mrs. Gaskell in the same essay. Tush reminds her readers, as does …

The Allegorical And Symbolic Modes Of Representation In W. Wordsworth's Poems Of The Fancy And Poems Of The Imagination, Irena Nikolova Nikolova

Masters Theses

The present study focuses on the controversial issue concerning the differentiation of Fancy and Imagination in the context of S. T. Coleridge's and W. Wordsworth's Romantic aesthetics. Wordsworth's theoretical and poetic discourses lead to an indeterminacy in the attempts to distinguish between the "lower" poetic faculty of Fancy and the "higher" poetic faculty of the Imagination. The present investigation proceeds from the assumption that the two poetic modes can only be defined accurately as complementary rather than distinct. They engender an unstable perspective upon the external world which allows for transmutations of the visible into the visionary, of the act …

A Hermeneutic Approach To The Detective Story In Our Mutual Friend, Peter Spriggins

Theses : Honours

No abstract provided.

The Uses Of Language In The Portrayal Of Character In Mansfield Park, Anne Chadwick

Theses : Honours

My study of characterisation in Mansfield Park seeks to advance the field and scope of current literary criticism. Recent developments in narrative criticism have included other fields of study in order to elucidate the assertions and observations proposed by literary studies. The findings of traditional literary criticism will be validated and extended in my examination of Mansfield Park, through the application of linguistic theories. My investigation of characterisation intends to assert the significance of linguistic theories in the study of literature.

Oration Of Kathleen Adams

The George Eliot Review Online, ISSN: 2831-5375

If William Shakespeare is the most famous writer to have come out of Warwickshire, the runner-up is undoubtedly George Eliot. Her greatest novel, Middlemarch, reflects the life of the city of Coventry in the early nineteenth century. Mrs. Kathleen Adams is herself a native of Coventry and has completed 25 years as the secretary of the George Eliot Fellowship. She attended Barr's Hill Grammar School; after leaving school she worked in the local Inland Revenue office where she met her future husband. After the birth of her two children she worked for 23 years as a school secretary at Coundon …

Wreath-Laying In The George Eliot Memorial Gardens, Nuneaton, Michael Sadgrove

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I am honoured to have been asked to lay a wreath in memory of George Eliot this afternoon. And, I can truly say, I do it in grateful memory. Not many years ago I would have to have confessed that I had not yet read any of her novels. On coming to Coventry, I decided to remedy this situation. For me, whatever town or city I have lived in, its sense of place has been defined very much by its literary associations, the part it has played in the imaginations of its writers and poets. As far as Coventry is …

Westminster Abbey Wreath-Laying June 20th 1992, Kathleen Adams

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George Eliot and religion is a vast subject and one that can only be lightly touched on today. But it is relevant to our being here because of the memorial stone in front of us. It took 100 years to get here and, because of the years of fund-raising by the George Eliot Fellowship as well as the many visits to the Abbey to negotiate the placing of the memorial stone in Poets' Corner in June 1980, is perhaps even more significant to us than a tomb or memorial would be that bad been erected in 1880 instead of 1980. …

The Heroic Journey Of Troilus And Cressida, Kelly A. Weatherman

Theses & Honors Papers

No abstract provided.

The Manifestation Of Thomas Hardy's Agnosticism In Jude The Obscure And Other Works, Joy Fitzgerald

Theses & Honors Papers

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Orts 26, 1992, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

FORTHCOMING EVENTS * MAY LECTURE* Aidan Mackay of the G.K. Chesterton Study Centre will give a talk on George MacDonald – His Influence upon G.K. Chesterton and C.S.Lewis The lecture will take place at 6.30 on Wednesday May 13th in Room 27c King’s College, Strand WC2.

Orts 25, 1992, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

LAST YEAR’S A.G.M. was held on Friday November 22nd 1991 at 58a Westbourne Park Villas. Twelve members were present with one observer and apologies from seven members. The Chairman began by welcoming everyone warmly and thanked the members of the Committee for their recent efforts. He also expressed the regret of the Society that Kathy Triggs was no longer able to continue with the editing of Orts.

Orts 27, 1992, The George Macdonald Society

Orts: The George MacDonald Society Newsletter

MEMORIAL UNVEILING CEREMONY The memorial, in memory of George MacDonald and his wife, is to be unveiled in Drumblade Churchyard on October 3rd. The programme is as follows: 2.30pm at Drumblade Church (some 2 miles north of Huntly) Gathering in church with eulogy and songs by choir, followed by the unveiling and light refreshments. 7.30pm at The Brander Library, Huntly Town Square. Evening gathering with talk on MacDonald’s letters. The MacDonald exhibition will also be open and there will be a bookstall. All members are cordially invited to both events, For bed and breakfast following are suggested:

Lydia Gwilt: Wilkie Collins’S Satanic, Sirenic Psychotic, Jonathan Craig Tutor

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Robert Graves’S Dilemma Of The Storyteller: Multiple Narratives In “The Shout”, Kirk H. Beetz

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Shakespeare And The Aggression Of Children, Morris Henry Partee

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Two Altered Endings—Dickens And Bulwer Lytton, John Cloy

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

The Feminism Of Rosamond Lehmann’S Novels, Harriet Blodgett

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Staging Personal Chaos And Fragmentation: The Plays Of Doris Lessing, Dorothy H. Brown

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, Jesuit A.M.D.G., John Stasriy

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Robert Browning’S Cleon: A Natural Man, George F. Horneker

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

“‘The Duca Di Crinola’”—What’S In A Name?, Rebecca Jordan

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Evoking Emma In “Poems Of 1912-13”, William C. Duckworth Jr.

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Ella D’Arcy, First Lady Of The Decadents, Benjamin Franklin Fisher Iv

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Cooper And Wordsworth, Lance Schachterle

Studies in English, New Series

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“The Eve Of St Agnes” And The Seductive Mystery Of Imagination, Lyndel P. Colglazier

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Gilbert And Sullivan And The Brooklyn Bridge: Two Newly Discovered Letters, G. A. Cevasco

Studies in English, New Series

No abstract provided.

Love, Labor, And Sloth In Chaucer’S Troilus And Criseyde, Gregory M. Sadlek

English Faculty Publications

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George Eliot's First Family: The Bartons Of Shepperton, Michael Wolff

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There are a lot of 'firsts' in the few months between September 1856 when Marian Evans Lewes began 'The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton' and February 1857 when she adopted George Eliot as a pseudonym. The Bartons were the first of her many families. The words of the title were, according to her own recollection, the first words of her new career. She was at the time in the process of making a new, it could be argued, a 'first family', in the new life she was sharing with George Henry Lewes and his young sons. And George …

The George Eliot Review: Journal Of The George Eliot Fellowship: 1992 No. 23, Graham Handley, Beryl Gray

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Contents

Notes on Contributors.............. 4

Jonathan Ouvry: Message of Greeting from the Fellowship President................. 5

Editorial Notes........................ 6

Kathleen Adams: Annual Report 1991...................... 7

Graham Handley & Beryl Gray: London Branch Report 1991....................... 11

Joanne Shattock: Wreath-laying in the George Eliot Memorial Gardens, Nuneaton, June 16th 1991........................ 14

Bill Adams: Wreath-laying at Westminster Abbey, June 22nd 1992..................... 18

Gina Quant: The Toast to the Immortal Memory. George Eliot Birthday Luncheon, 24th November 1991...................... 21

Jenny Uglow: George Eliot and Mrs. Gaskell. The Twentieth George Eliot Memorial Lecture, 26th October 1991...................25