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    ‘How the guineas shone as they came pouring out of the dark leather mouths!’: Shades of Gold in George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) by Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

    Published 2015-06-01
    “…Far from the common representation of money in Victorian literature, with its many references to the expanding world of finance, credit and speculation, George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) depicts money mainly as gold coins, at the crossroads between realism and symbolism, the profane and the sacred. …”
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    ‘Making audible to one a roar of sound where others find perfect stillness’: Soundscape in George Eliot’s The Lifted Veil and the physiological acoustics by Lilia Miroshnychenko

    Published 2019-12-01
    “…The article suggests how the ideas in physiological acoustics summed up and further developed by Hermann von Helmholtz, a German physicist, whose figure won popularity among Victorian intellectuals from the middle of the century, could be appropriate to George Eliot’s early writing. The resonant theory informs, in various ways, the soundscape of The Lifted Veil (1859), redefining the function of sound in the text—as a literary device, a means of characterisation, a narrative instrument, and what’s more—a component of the author’s moral imperative of sympathy.…”
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    ‘[E]very word he says to me enters my heart and has a new meaning for me’: The Soundscape in George Eliot’s Janet’s Repentance by Lilia Miroshnychenko

    Published 2021-10-01
    “…To pursue the theme of soundscape (to use Murray Schafer’s term) in George Eliot’s Janet’s Repentance, this paper will successively address more specific topics: the forms of sound representations, the sound as an articulation of the social, the affinity of sound and sympathetic resonance. …”
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    Elizabeth Gaskell’s and George Eliot’s Common Interest in Two Literary Women of 17th-Century France: Madame de Sablé and Madame de Sévigné by Alain Jumeau

    Published 2009-03-01
    “…En 1854, Elizabeth Gaskell était déjà une romancière célèbre, mais George Eliot n’avait pas encore mis à l’épreuve ses talents de romancière. …”
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    « Preface, or Advertisement (call it which you please) » : les enjeux de l’intitulé de quelques préfaces auctoriales by Maxime Leroy

    Published 2014-06-01
    “…Does it make a difference to call them prefaces, advertisements, forewords or notices? Why did George Eliot write a prelude to Middlemarch but an introduction to Felix Holt? …”
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    Economic and Symbolic Transmissions in Women’s Novels: Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell by Marie-Laure Massei-Chamayou

    Published 2024-03-01
    “…In A Room of One’s Own (1929), Virginia Woolf traces a fascinating genealogy of women writers from Aphra Behn to George Eliot, including Frances Burney and Jane Austen among others, to emphasize the power of influence in relation to their engagement with both fiction and economics. …”
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    ‘Exotic Eroticism’: Gwendolen Harleth and Daniel Deronda by Julia Kuehn

    Published 2009-04-01
    “…The essay looks once more at the relationship between the two protagonists of George Eliot's final novel. It argues that rather than through issues of class, as scholars have conventionally argued, Gwendolen Harleth's interest in Daniel Deronda must be understood through the ethnic otherness he represents. …”
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    « Excès et pénurie dans Middlemarch : le cas de M. Casaubon » by Sylvie Jougan

    Published 2006-12-01
    “…But this portrait of the failed scholar can also be read as a form of self-caricature, through which George Eliot was trying to exorcize her fear of failure in writing Middlemarch.…”
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    Répression et résurgence du judaïsme dans Daniel Deronda : les voies de la masculinité sont-elles impénétrables ? by Gilbert Pham-Thanh

    Published 2010-06-01
    “…George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda constitutes an inspiring testimony to 19th-century patriarchal society. …”
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    Science et Fiction by Annie Escuret

    Published 2019-12-01
    “…Another refusal of randomness can be found in George Eliot’s works which advocate a conservative reformist organicism. …”
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    La Westminster Review comme outil de transmission et de démocratisation de culture savante, 1824-1857 by Odile Boucher-Rivalain

    Published 2010-06-01
    “…With her contribution to the Westminster Review ending in 1857 as a result of the start of George Eliot’s career as a novelist, the heyday of the review came to an end. …”
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    Trollope, Liberalism and Scripture by Hervé Picton

    Published 2007-12-01
    “…Anglican convaincu, Trollope ne devait toutefois jamais perdre la foi, contrairement à certains de ses amis libres penseurs tels que George Eliot ou G. H. Lewes.…”
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    Excès et sacré dans la littérature victorienne et édouardienne by Annie Escuret

    Published 2006-12-01
    “…sophistication, an expert in the literary deconstruction of the Bible’s master stories. Even George Eliot creates characters that symbolize excess or chaos. …”
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    Eternal City or the Stuff of Nightmares? The Characterisation of Rome in Portrait of a Lady and Middlemarch by Hannah Hunt

    Published 2012-06-01
    “…Both Henry James and George Eliot make graphic use of realistic locations within their novels. …”
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