Titlebook: George Eliot‘s Feminism; The Right to Rebelli June Skye Szirotny Book 2015 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2

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The Mill on the Floss, not yet, in the “dark ages” (II, iv, I:314) of the 1830s (I, iii, I:40), under siege by the Victorian Women’s Movement. George Eliot, writing from memory of her childhood (Maggie Tulliver, like George Eliot, was born in 1819),. argues that patriarchy’s suffocating paternalism, depriving women of ed

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Romola,tivated woman, one of the author’s main concerns is also the denigration a highly intelligent woman suffers. The story takes place in Florence between April 9, 1492 and May 23, 1498, but we feel it takes place in the mid-Victorian era, patriarchal law in the Renaissance having descended to the Victo

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The Spanish Gypsy,s, chronologically I place the poem before the novel, though the poem was completed after the novel. But regardless of the order of the works, the poem, ending with the idealist’s submission to her father, interrupts the sequence of works beginning with ., which ends in the idealist’s rebellion, tho

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Middlemarch,reme. As in “Janet’s Repentance” and ., George Eliot again concentrates on patriarchy’s marital oppression of women, which was the focus for feminists in the last half of the nineteenth century.. As in ., the heroine ultimately, by rebelling against patriarchy, finds fulfillment in a marriage of equ

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