Epic-graphic Proportions in George Eliot’s Middlemarch

IF 0.2 3区文学 Q2 Arts and Humanities

STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 Pub Date : 2021-07-22 DOI:10.1353/sel.2020.0033

Amelia Hall

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Abstract

Abstract:This article uses George Eliot’s Middlemarch to model a new strategy for reading chapter epigraphs, suggesting we understand them as shrunken, subsidiary structures subsumed within a vast novel. Focusing on questions of epigraphical size and scale reveals a multifaceted examination of gender in which canonical male authors are miniaturized and unattributed epigraphs express empathy for women who, like Dorothea, leave “no great name on the earth.” Epigraphs enable Middlemarch to construe problems of gender in terms of textual proportion and to translate these issues of proportion into an argument concerning the importance of the incrementally influential female life.

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乔治·艾略特《米德尔马契》中史诗般的比例

摘要:本文以乔治·艾略特的《米德尔马契》为例，建立了一种阅读章节引文的新策略，建议我们将章节引文理解为一部巨著中缩小的附属结构。关注铭文大小和规模的问题揭示了对性别的多方面考察，其中权威的男性作者被缩小了，未署名的铭文表达了对女性的同情，比如多萝西娅，“在地球上没有留下伟大的名字”。铭文使米德尔马契能够根据文本比例来解释性别问题，并将这些比例问题转化为一种关于女性生活的重要性的论点。

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STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES-

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期刊介绍： SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.