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17 Cards in this Set
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Meredith |
Te ordeal of Richard Peverel |
Banned |
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Meredith |
Modern Love |
About the disintegration of a marriage |
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Meredith |
Female characters have a particularly distinctive quality Fascination w/ political manoeuvre Fascination w/ tensions of contemporary Italy |
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Meredith |
Comic spirit rules in his novels Comedy that informs his representation of human discourse & his analysis of a character |
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Evan's sisters' distinctive quality (in "Evan Harrington") |
Calculated social mobility |
Meredith |
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Diana Warwick's distinctive quality (in "Diana of the Crossways") |
Impulsive independence |
Meredith |
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Meredith |
Beauchamp's career |
Fascination w/ political manoeuvre |
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Meredith |
Sandra Bezzoni Vittoria |
Fascination w/ tensions of contemporary Italy |
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Meredith |
The Egoist |
Substantial dialogue scenes Tense comedy of English upper-class manners |
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Eliot |
Scenes of clerical life |
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Eliot |
Adam Bede |
Detailed and sympathetic representation of a rural community in the recent past, opposed to the industrial/urban confusion of the present ・new kind of HEROISM (heroic uprightness emerged from morality if ordinary country life) ・society on the edge of change, potentially divided by war and industrialization, but held together by religion and class-interdependence ・NO RURAL IDYLL |
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Eliot |
The Mill on the Floss |
Provincial English society While reinforcing family values, it serves to stifle aspiration and its heroine's bids for personal liberation ・ MAGGIE TULLIVER (aspirer AND victim) Resolution through catastrophe |
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Eliot |
Silas Marner |
Rural tragedy Optimistic moral fable Social, ethical, spiritual dilemmas |
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Eliot |
Romola |
Historical novel set @ Renaissance's Florence ・ ROMOLA DE' BARDI Only true Feminist heroine: rejection of the narrow obligations of church and state |
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Eliot |
Felix Holt, the radical |
Retrospective view of popular agitation in an English country town ・ Dorothea Brooke Her historical impact depends on "unhistorical" acts |
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Eliot |
Middlemarch |
Individual destinies interwoven |
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Eliot |
Daniel Deronda |
Anglo-jewish novel |
