Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.74.2.0129
Juan de Dios Torralbo Caballero
This article examines “The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton,” paying particular attention to the hardships endured by his wife and the toll they take on her. In many ways, Amelia Barton is the archetypal Victorian housewife and mother, and a synecdoche of female domesticity. When she dies at the age of thirty-five, her role is taken up by her eldest daughter. Patty is nine years old at the start of the narrative, appearing as a thirty-year-old woman in the conclusion. The central premise of this article is to demonstrate that the premature death of Amelia stands as an emphatic condemnation of the established gendered roles firmly embedded in Victorian society; it is a powerful challenge to the contemporary status quo with regard to the role of women, both within the family and in society in general. The study applies the ideas of contemporary figures—thinkers such as Ruskin, and poets such as Tennyson—regarding Victorian gendered roles (gentlemanliness, womanliness, female self-restraint). It also explores the concepts of pathos and sympátheia in relation to “The Sad Fortunes,” as well as examining the text in terms of the author’s own conception of the novel.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.74.2.0161
Ethan Gotlieb Wilcox
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.74.2.0153
Kathleen Mccormack
The ‘Other Germany’ in the title of Linda K. Hughes’s recent monograph refers to a quotation taken from Vernon Lee’s Genius Loci (1899), which also provides the book’s epigraph. Lee explains: “The Germany I am speaking of is not the one which colonises or makes cheap goods, or frightens the rest of the world in various ways ...” (cited in Hughes, vi, 1). Lee’s view of Germany was very different, informed both by her childhood experiences of the nurses and governess who raised her and by subsequent travel. Hughes quotes her as stating that “... of all the countries, the first to be good to me was Germany ...” (cited in Hughes, 187). This experience of Germany “being good” to women writers and travellers is shared across the ten case studies in Hughes’s book. To these figures, Germany was not an imperial or economic threat, as other contemporary portrayals frequently suggest, but a site and symbol of “crosscultural freedoms and female opportunity”. Part group biography, part literary study on a theme, part alternative cross-disciplinary history, Victorian Women Writers and the Other Germany shows how ten women writers developed through visits to, engagement with and writing about different German places across the long nineteenth century.
琳达·k·休斯(Linda K. Hughes)最近的专著标题中的“其他德国”引用了弗农·李(Vernon Lee)的《天才轨迹》(Genius Loci, 1899)中的一段话，该书的题词也出自这段话。李解释说:“我所说的德国不是殖民或制造廉价商品的德国，也不是以各种方式恐吓世界其他国家的德国……(引自Hughes, vi, 1)李对德国的看法是非常不同的，她的童年经历告诉护士和家庭教师谁抚养她和随后的旅行。休斯引用她的话说:“……在所有国家中，第一个对我好的是德国……(引自Hughes, 187)。在休斯的书中，十个案例研究分享了德国对女性作家和旅行者“好”的经历。对这些人物来说，德国并不是帝国或经济的威胁，就像其他当代人物经常描绘的那样，而是一个“跨文化自由和女性机会”的场所和象征。一部分是群体传记，一部分是主题文学研究，一部分是另类跨学科历史，《维多利亚时代的女作家和其他德国》展示了十位女作家是如何在漫长的19世纪中通过访问、参与和写作德国不同地区而发展起来的。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.74.2.0083
William Baker, N. Henry
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.74.2.0150
Ilana M. Blumberg
Course Description: This course will consist mainly in a close reading and discussion of Spinoza'a Ethics. As we read Spinoza' Ethics we will learn how he conceives of God/Nature as a substance with infinite attributes and modes comprising everything that exists, how he explains the nature and origin of mind and emotions, what power we have of our emotions, and how we can find ultimate blessedness in the love of God/Nature. Requirements PHIL 433 (for PHIL 533 see further down): 1. Annotated glossary 35% 2. Final term paper (6-9 pages) 35% 3. Participation, exercises, short homework assignments 20% 4. Weekly meeting in reading groups 10% Regarding 1: You will be given concepts you need to include in your glossary. For each concept. a) Begin with a general definition of the word in Spinoza (include the Latin term) as you would find it in a dictionary. b) Then quote at least 3 passages in which Spinoza makes a significant use of this concept. (Note: you will add quotes as we progress in the reading of the Ethics. In week five, you only need to have one or two quotations.) Quote in the standard way for Spinoza, for example: Sch. c) Then explain in a written paragraph what the word means in the context of the quotation you presented.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.74.2.0110
Xiaotong Guo
In The Mill on the Floss, the ruthless rules of social Darwinism play out even before the term “survival of the fittest” was coined, and the fiction translates the “survival of the fittest” that Darwin identified in nature to a human community in the early stages of industrial capitalism. This article aims to demonstrate how George Eliot evaluates laissez-faire capitalism through her use of the Darwinian struggle for existence among the Tullivers and the Dodsons, and how George Eliot’s criticism of materialism and Mammonism of the early industrial capitalism in The Mill on the Floss works as a warning for her Victorian contemporaries who are devoted to “economic survival of the fittest.”
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.74.2.0094
J. Secord, the Editors of the Darwin Correspondence Project
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.74.1.0055
William Baker
The first of what is hoped will be an occasional series of Critical and Scholarly Reflections from the Past on George Eliot, Her Life and Work. Particularly appropriate given the 150th anniversary of the publication of Middlemarch, the first is an extract from David Daiches’s seventy-two-page monograph discussion of George Eliot: Middlemarch in the “Studies in English Literature” series of which he was the General Editor, published by Edward Arnold. According to the blurb on the inside dust jacket, “this series is designed to provide students of individual plays, novels and groups of poems and essays, which are known to be widely studied in Six Forms and in universities. The emphasis is on clarification and evaluation; biographical facts are subordinated to critical discussion.” The series appeared in the United States as “Barron’s Studies in English and Continental Literature.” The extract follows a brief exposition of Daiches’s career and significance.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.74.1.0001
Ilana M. Blumberg
Investigating the short period between 1840 and 1842, I explore the immediate causes and specific expressions of Mary Ann Evans’s apostasy within the context of her family and larger religious culture in England. Seemingly overnight, Mary Ann moved decisively from the intense evangelical affiliation of more than a decade as well as the familial Anglican identity of her entire life to critical freethinking. The intellectual tussle of the times was not inevitably weighted toward the loss of faith; many thinkers found habitable places that supported rational, scientific, and tolerant perspectives among a broad array of Christian communities. Mary Ann Evans’s decision cannot simply be read as an account of “progress.” I suggest that the transformation was the first of a set of life-changing decisions that she tended to describe in terms of sacrifice, but also in terms less native to her: those of freedom and relief for a mind gifted by abundant understanding.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.74.1.0017
Sezen Ünlüönen
Critics have uncovered many relevant contexts to further our understanding of Romola, from fifteenth-century Florentine politics and Piero di Cosimo’s Higher Primitivism to Eliot’s quarry and Leighton’s illustrations. In this article, I look at a previously understudied context that is crucial to our understanding of Romola: the Turkish conquest of former Greek territories in the fifteenth century. I show that, in Romola, following the Turkish conquest, an amnesia surrounds all things Greek (from Tito and Baldassare to Greek churches), and I argue that this amnesia is ideologically motivated in the aftermath of the Crimean War during which Britain was an ally of the Ottomans against Greek interests. Ultimately, this insight helps us see that for Romola, artworks are the true bearers of history even in the face of ideological erasure.
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