03432nam 2200637Ia 450 991082104150332120200520144314.00-7914-8636-21-4175-3141-X(CKB)1000000000238632(OCoLC)61367743(CaPaEBR)ebrary10594711(SSID)ssj0000236340(PQKBManifestationID)11210853(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000236340(PQKBWorkID)10173247(PQKB)10974054(MiAaPQ)EBC3408384(OCoLC)56066786(MdBmJHUP)muse6049(Au-PeEL)EBL3408384(CaPaEBR)ebr10594711(DE-B1597)682309(DE-B1597)9780791486368(EXLCZ)99100000000023863220020925d2003 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrRereading George Eliot changing responses to her experiments in life /Bernard J. Paris1st ed.Albany State University of New York Pressc20031 online resource (235 p.) SUNY series in psychoanalysis and cultureBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-7914-5833-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-215) and index.Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- No Longer the Same Interpreter -- “An Angel Beguiled”: Dorothea Brooke -- The Two Selves of Tertius Lydgate -- “A Dreadful Plain Girl”: Mary Garth -- “This Problematic Sylph”: Gwendolen Harleth -- “The Crushed Penitent”: Gwendolen’s Transformation -- Gwendolen and Daniel: A Therapeutic Relationship? -- Deronda the Deliverer -- Conclusion -- References -- IndexIn a probing analysis that has broad implications for theories of reading, Bernard J. Paris explores how personal needs and changes in his own psychology have affected his responses to George Eliot over the years. Having lost his earlier enthusiasm for her "Religion of Humanity," he now appreciates the psychological intuitions that are embodied in her brilliant portraits of characters and relationships. Concentrating on Eliot's most impressive psychological novels, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda, Paris focuses on her detailed portrayals of major characters in an effort to recover her intuitions and appreciate her mimetic achievement. He argues that although she intended for her characters to provide confirmation of her views, she was instead led to deeper, more enduring truths, although she did not consciously comprehend the discoveries she had made. Like her characters, Paris argues, these truths must be disengaged from her rhetoric in order to be perceived.Psychoanalysis and literatureEnglandHistory19th centuryPsychological fiction, EnglishHistory and criticismPsychology in literaturePsychoanalysis and literatureHistoryPsychological fiction, EnglishHistory and criticism.Psychology in literature.823/.8Paris Bernard J1122191MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821041503321Rereading George Eliot4103283UNINA