In Thinking without Thinking in the Victorian Novel, Vanessa L. Ryan demonstrates how both
the form and the experience of reading novels played an important role in ongoing debates …

Carpenter discusses apocalytptic narrative schemes in Romola, Adam Bede, Middlemarch,
Daniel Deronda, and The Legend of Jubal. In the context of nineteenth-century British …

" In George Eliot's Dialogue with John Milton, Anna K. Nardo details how Eliot reimagined
Milton's life and art to write epic novels for an age of unbelief. Nardo demonstrates that Eliot …

Two of Wordsworth's most important lyrics about the growth of the poet's imagination,"
Tintern Abbey" and" Nutting," are also the scenes of a sister's instruction. Different as these …

A large portion of George Eliot's first full-fledged novel Adam Bede (1859) is devoted to
recognizing and adjudicating the ways in which individuals can be held responsible for their …

In Chapter 21 of Adam Bede, the narrator remarks upon the quiet 4'drama" of three laborers
learning to read:" It was almost as if three rough animals were making humble efforts to learn …

This dissertation examines the role of mirrors in Pre-Raphaelite painting as a significant
motif that ultimately contributes to the on-going discussion surrounding the problematic PRB …

Between 1896 and 1902 Yeats composed four distinct versions and wrote som 726
manuscript pages of an unfinished novel, The Speckled Bird, before he fin decided to …

The human, everyday aspect ofMethodism, and that which gives it force and popularity, its
inartistic garb, its commonness ofspeech, its uncomeliness ofgait and action, its loud out …

Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations establishes a new
analytical method in the broader context of sensory studies in order to explain how the genre …