Date of Award
Summer 1974
Document Type
Dissertation - Restricted
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
English
First Advisor
Thale, Jerome
Second Advisor
Pick, John
Third Advisor
Boyle, Robert
Abstract
In the following pages, I have merely presented--I have not critically examined--George Eliot's secular pan-humanism. I might mention here that I am quite aware of the shortcomings of a creed that rejects the transcendental and of a faith narrowed down to a bare "meliorist" sympathy inspired solely by the "harshness" of the human lot. I believe, however, that it should always intrigue the student of George Eliot that here in this "atheistic" novelist is to be found the finest, the most fervent, and the most eloquent expression in English fiction of the radical, non-eudaemonistic idealism of the Cross.
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