Paradise Lost and Middlemarch are linked through ideas of knowledge
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Critics
The epic form stunned the novelist in to silence
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Postlethwaite (1990)
Eve's real sin was not sexual but intellectual
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Gilbert & Gubar (1974)
Paradise Lost is a 'bogey' and the epic form furthers the myth that women are inherently fallen and cannot live an epic life
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Postlethwaite (1990)
Paradise Lost is not a bogey but a rich source of inspiration to Eliot
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Lodge (2012)
The classic Victorian novel, perhaps most perfectly exemplified by George Eliot’s Middlemarch, usually told its story from several points of view, which are often mediated through free indirect style, but compared and assessed
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Card 2
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The epic form stunned the novelist in to silence
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Critics
Card 3
Front
Eve's real sin was not sexual but intellectual
Back
Card 4
Front
Paradise Lost is a 'bogey' and the epic form furthers the myth that women are inherently fallen and cannot live an epic life
Back
Card 5
Front
Paradise Lost is not a bogey but a rich source of inspiration to Eliot
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