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Bell, Mary E.

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'Spells which have lost their virtue': The mythology and psychology of shame in the early novels of George Eliot.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	'Spells which have lost their virtue': The mythology and psychology of shame in the early novels of George Eliot./
Author:	Bell, Mary E.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2014,
Description:	406 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International75-08A(E).
Subject:	English literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3620418
ISBN:	9781303908651

'Spells which have lost their virtue': The mythology and psychology of shame in the early novels of George Eliot.
Bell, Mary E.

'Spells which have lost their virtue': The mythology and psychology of shame in the early novels of George Eliot. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2014 - 406 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 75-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Arizona, 2014.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Although Victorian England was a strongly shame-based culture, no book-length study explores the nineteenth century understanding of shame or its influence in the oeuvre of a major Victorian novelist. Because George Eliot and her partner George Henry Lewes worked at the crux of every major Victorian discourse, her novels are a key place to begin this exploration. George Eliot's early novels Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner, resist or rewrite English cultural myths that embody shame as a method of social control, especially myths related to the biblical doctrine of election. Eliot employs a two-level structure suggested by her reading of Feuerbach, Spinoza, and Mackay, in which the novels follow biblical plotlines, while she depicts in her characters the psychological positivist understanding of moral motivation derived from Spinoza, in which repressed shame must be acknowledged in order to attain moral freedom.

ISBN: 9781303908651Subjects--Topical Terms:

516356
English literature.

'Spells which have lost their virtue': The mythology and psychology of shame in the early novels of George Eliot.
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520 $a In Chapter One, I assess the influence of John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education on Victorian child-rearing practices, employing the theories of affect theorist Silvan Tomkins to explain the effect of these practices in the development of personalities such as George Eliot's. I discuss her favorite book as a child---The Linnet's Life ---and demonstrate that the book forecasts the psychic work of Eliot's protagonists. I also read Rousseau's Confessions and explain how his understanding of shame as a corrupting influence shaped her treatment of shame in her novels.
520 $a In Chapter Two, I discuss Scenes of Clerical Life in the context of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, and of English mythologies of the French Revolution. Deploying the gothic mode, Eliot rewrites characters and scenes from Carlyle's History of the French Revolution, and Dickens's Little Dorrit, to interrogate the tendency of the English to view all people like themselves as the elect, and to vilify and shame those who differ.
520 $a In Chapters Three and Four, I argue that Eliot structures the plots of Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss from the mythological structure of the Genesis story of Cain and Abel, which is the type of election. I discuss Romantic and Victorian versions of the Cain and Abel story, such as Byron's closet drama Cain, compared to Eliot's own extension of the story in her poem The Legend of Jubal. I also discuss the treatment of the story of Cain and Abel in various theological discourse, such as Bede, Augustine and Calvin.
520 $a In Chapter Five, I argue Silas Marner's history parallels the development of the biblical Israelites from after the flood, to the Babylonian exile and return. Eliot's treatment is strongly influenced by volume two of Mackay's The Progress of the Intellect; Eliot suggests that whether Silas is wicked or elect, the narrative is about the vindication of God, not Silas. Eppie represents the positive development of Christianity from the ancient Hebrew religion, as it was influenced and purified by Babylonian monotheistic religion. For Eliot (following Feuerbach and Mackay), the "Essence of Christianity" was not the shaming doctrine of election, but rather the doctrine of Christ, who offered forgiveness rather than blame and shame.
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