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STUDY OF THE CHILD IN FIVE GEORGE ELIOT NOVELS

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1983
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To appreciate and understand the child's perspective is George Eliot's objective and achievement in many of her novels. Her sympathetic attitude towards children, which was strongly influenced by Wordsworth's idealization of childhood, is expressed in four ways: 1) the child's appearance, actions, speech, and thoughts; 2) anecdotes and comments in which George Eliot speaks directly to the reader; 3) the attitude of adults toward children and their own childhood; and 4) child imagery. In Eliot's early novels children are frequently the main characters; in her late novels the child is depicted in retrospect, as an adult character recalls childhood.
Title: A STUDY OF THE CHILD IN FIVE GEORGE ELIOT NOVELS.
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Name(s): BUBIS, RITA S.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Coyle, William, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1983
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 69 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: To appreciate and understand the child's perspective is George Eliot's objective and achievement in many of her novels. Her sympathetic attitude towards children, which was strongly influenced by Wordsworth's idealization of childhood, is expressed in four ways: 1) the child's appearance, actions, speech, and thoughts; 2) anecdotes and comments in which George Eliot speaks directly to the reader; 3) the attitude of adults toward children and their own childhood; and 4) child imagery. In Eliot's early novels children are frequently the main characters; in her late novels the child is depicted in retrospect, as an adult character recalls childhood.
Identifier: 14161 (digitool), FADT14161 (IID), fau:10973 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1983.
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Subject(s): Eliot, George,--1819-1880--Characters--Children
Children in literature
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