Dorothea Brooke, Gwendolyn Harleth and Hetty Sorrel on the Brink of the Impossible: George Eliot and the Female Bildungsroman
This paper examines the tension between ambition and failure in the trajectories of the female protagonists in three George Eliot novels—Hetty Sorrel in Adam Bede (1859), Dorothea Brooke in Middlemarch (1871-72), and Gwendolyn Harleth in Daniel Deronda (1876). Building on Franco Moretti’s notion of...
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2025-04-01
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| Series: | Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cve/16175 |
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