| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 220 pages) |
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SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture |
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SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Ch. 1 No Longer the Same Interpreter -- Reading George Eliot Then and Now -- Psychological Perspective -- Rhetoric Versus Mimesis -- Critical Controversies -- Ch. 2 "An Angel Beguiled": Dorothea Brooke -- Calvin Bedient on Middlemarch -- Rhetorical Treatment of Dorothea -- Dorothea as a Mimetic Character -- Dorothea's "Education": Casaubon -- Dorothea and Will -- Saving Rosamond -- Dorothea's Sad Sacrifice -- Ch. 3 Two Selves of Tertius Lydgate -- Lydgate as Foil to Dorothea -- Prelude to Lydgate -- Lydgate's Two Selves -- Lydgate's Demoralization -- Lydgate and Rosamond -- Lydgate's Sad Sacrifice -- Ch. 4 "A Dreadful Plain Girl": Mary Garth -- Foil to the Egoists -- Mary's Hard Life -- Mary and Fred -- Fred Vincy -- That Happy Ending -- Ch. 5 "This Problematic Sylph": Gwendolen Harleth -- Great Achievements and Great Problems -- Confusing Picture of Gwendolen -- More Versions of Gwendolen -- Gwendolen's Sorrows -- Enter Grandcourt -- Ch. 6 "The Crushed Penitent": Gwendolen's Transformation -- Introduction -- Gwendolen's Terror and Guilt -- Captain Davilow and Mrs. Glasher -- Postmarital Miseries -- Ch. 7 Gwendolen and Daniel: A Therapeutic Relationship? -- Critical Disagreements -- Is Deronda's Influence Transformative? -- Gwendolen and Grandcourt's Death -- Deronda Not Gwendolen's Therapist -- Gwendolen's New Existence -- Ch. 8 Deronda the Deliverer -- Imagined Human Being -- Daniel's Peculiar Position -- Search for a Vocation -- Deronda's Ambivalence -- Failed Relationship with Gwendolen |
| Summary |
"In a probing analysis that has broad implications for theories of reading, Bernard J. Paris explores how personal needs and changes in his own psychology have affected his responses to George Eliot over the years. Having lost his earlier enthusiasm for her "Religion of Humanity," he now appreciates the psychological intuitions that are embodied in her brilliant portraits of characters and relationships. Concentrating on Eliot's most impressive psychological novels, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, Paris focuses on her detailed portrayals of major characters in an effort to recover her intuitions and appreciate her mimetic achievement. He argues that although she intended for her characters to provide confirmation of her views, she was instead led to deeper, more enduring truths, although she did not consciously comprehend the discoveries she had made. Like her characters, Paris argues, these truths must be disengaged from her rhetoric in order to be perceived."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-215) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Knowledge -- Psychology
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Daniel Deronda.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Middlemarch.
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Eliot, George, 1819-1880 -- Characters
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| SUBJECT |
Eliot, George, 1819-1880 fast |
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Daniel Deronda (Eliot, George) fast |
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Middlemarch (Eliot, George) fast |
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Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism
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Psychoanalysis and literature -- England
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Psychology in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Characters and characteristics
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Psychoanalysis and literature
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Psychological fiction, English
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Psychology
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Psychology in literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
141753141X |
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9781417531417 |
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0791458334 |
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9780791458334 |
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0791458342 |
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9780791458341 |
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