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Poised Above Pleasure or Pain: Some final thoughts on The Mill on the Floss
George Eliot’s novels usually affect me very deeply and The Mill on the Floss has been no exception. When I am in the midst of one of her books, I find myself steeling every free moment I can to read … Continue reading
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τι μέγεθος: Some Kind of Magnitude in Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss
In the early chapters of The Mill on the Floss, George Eliot describes Maggie, her young, feisty and vivacious heroine: “There were passions at war in Maggie at that moment to have made a tragedy, if tragedies were made by … Continue reading
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Putting the Shaken House in its New Order: My Year in Reading-2018
There is no doubt that this was a tough year by any measure. The news, in my country and around the world. was depressing, scary and, at times, downright ridiculous. Personally, I had some very high highs and some very … Continue reading
Gwendolen as St. Cecilia: Some Beginning Thoughts on George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
I am so happy to be occupying, once again, a world that George Eliot has created with her novel Daniel Deronda. Gwendolen, like many of the heroines in Eliot’s novels, is willful, independent, and a fierce presence from the very … Continue reading
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