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The Marriage Plot
As I was thinking back on the novels we’ve read this past semester, the concept of the marriage plot has been particularly pervasive and on my mind. We’ve read about the intricate social network, made up largely of marital relationships, … Continue reading
“Their Mutual Life”: Lydgate’s Double Consciousness and complicated ‘nodes’ of the web
Hi all! In chapters 64-67 of Middlemarch, George Eliot portrays the strain of debt on Lydgate and Rosamond’s married life. I would like to examine the connection between these two ‘nodes’ by noting Eliot’s diction and the way she constructs … Continue reading
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The Reluctant Stork of Middlemarch
Rosamond was expecting a baby. Celia had recently had a baby. Very few children earn names or titles in Middlemarch. Therefore, adolescence continues to exist on the periphery of the novel. As Professor Hensley mentioned briefly in class on Monday, … Continue reading
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Rachel: a portrait of a “modern” woman?
As the Betteredges’s narrative progresses, I was particularly struck by the portait of Miss Rachel and her marriage plot of the two suitors. Our narrator describes her first as “difficult […] to fathom” and then presents many of her characteristics … Continue reading
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Tagged Betteredge, characterization, Collins, female, Franklin, gender, marriage plot, modern, Moonstone, narrative, narrator, point of view, Rachel, The Moonstone, viewed, viewer, Wilkie Collins, woman
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