Mill On The Floss, The
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1853260746
ISBN 13
9781853260742
Category
Fiction/Littérature
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Publication Year
1993
Publisher
Pages
472
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Abstract
The Mill on the Floss, based on George Eliot's own experiences of provincial life, is a masterpiece of ambiguity in which moral choice is subjected to the hypocrisy of the Victorian age.
As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she can not reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. She is unable to adapt to or break free from her community, and tragedy, on more than one level, is the result.
As the headstrong Maggie Tulliver grows into womanhood, the deep love which she has for her brother Tom turns into conflict, because she can not reconcile his bourgeois standards with her own lively intelligence. She is unable to adapt to or break free from her community, and tragedy, on more than one level, is the result.
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Résumé : The Mill on the Floss est aujourd'hui considéré, à juste titre, comme l'un des classiques de la littérature britannique, et son auteur a été reconnu comme l'une des grandes romancières du XIXe siècle. Pourtant, derrière ce statut d'ouvrage " canonique " se cache peut-être un texte moins victorien qu'il n'y paraît, avec son refus de conventions morales et sociales oppressantes, avec son narrateur ambigu et ironique. Dans ce recueil, la parole est donnée à des universitaires anglophones et francophones, avec une diversité d'approches qui devrait permettre de mieux cerner un texte d'une grande richesse.
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