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Runciman, Angela E.

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An Unhistoric Becoming: Reading George Eliot's Middlemarch with Walter Benjamin.

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Title/Author:	An Unhistoric Becoming: Reading George Eliot's Middlemarch with Walter Benjamin./
Author:	Runciman, Angela E.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2020,
Description:	130 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International82-02A.
Subject:	European studies. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=27994275
ISBN:	9798662572676

An Unhistoric Becoming: Reading George Eliot's Middlemarch with Walter Benjamin.
Runciman, Angela E.

An Unhistoric Becoming: Reading George Eliot's Middlemarch with Walter Benjamin. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2020 - 130 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 82-02, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Binghamton, 2020.

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This dissertation examines the purposeful limitations George Eliot places on her protagonist Dorothea Brooke's ambition in Middlemarch. Though typical scholarly readings have taken Eliot to task for preventing her heroines from realizing the kind of freedom, mobility, and professional and personal fulfillment she enjoyed, I argue that her methodological choices in Middlemarch serve to criticize the patriarchal patterns and histories which silence women's experience and block clear pathways to womanhood. Beginning with what Walter Benjamin cites as the "constellation" in his work on the philosophy of history and The Origin of German Tragic Drama, I read the invocation of St. Theresa of Avila in the Middlemarch Prelude as the influential historic constellation for Dorothea, leading to her recognition of intellectual and corporeal knowledge in and of herself. Coming through at the level of image, text, and Bernini's emblematic baroque masterpiece, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, the novel's constellation of St. Theresa recognizes Dorothea's tragic position in an era not conducive to women "perform[ing] the function of knowledge," which ultimately sacrifices her to the "greater good of the world." I argue this constellation operates as a demythologizing force, turning the patriarchal, romantic notions of sacrificial histories on their heads, and recasting these histories as the realistic, tragic limitations and silences of potential histories embodied in women like Dorothea.Reading primarily together with Benjamin, the philosophical core of whose writings work against dominant historical narrative-that of the "victors"-I uncover the historic and spiritual reverberations and constellations with St. Theresa that beckon to Dorothea as she is shocked into her recognition of her mistake in marrying Edward Casaubon, and gesture toward a break with longstanding patterns of history, to "urge a grand retrieval" of "past errors." Through three chapters, including Eliot's method of fiction in "The Natural History of German Life" alongside Benjamin's (anti-)historian and Eliot's novel as anti-Bildungsroman, and Eliot's powerful incorporation of the constellation of St. Theresa with Dorothea, I ultimately show how Eliot's break with patriarchal patterns of history calls for a non-normative, women's history-necessitating a specifically female mentorship, or reimagining what I call the mentoring-image.

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3168420
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Walter Benjamin

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