"George Eliot's Redefinition of Tragedy in <em>Middlemarch</em>" by Jean M. Moon
 

Date of Award

7-1968

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

First Advisor

Jerome Thale

Abstract

George Eliot was trying to write a new kind of tragedy in her novels, one unlike the Aristotelian concept of a great man deemed to fall by a tragic flaw in his character. As early as in Adam Bodo, she attempted to show through the use of simple rustic people how inherent feelings, intelligence, and aspirations elevate the common man to a capacity for heroism and thus tragedy.

Comments

An Essay Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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