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... Silas's growing isolation and alienation in Raveloe is based on the imagery of physical force . The effect of the movement of pity he had felt towards Sally Oates was not to increase his membership of the com- munity . Instead it ...
... Silas's growing isolation and alienation in Raveloe is based on the imagery of physical force . The effect of the movement of pity he had felt towards Sally Oates was not to increase his membership of the com- munity . Instead it ...
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Critical Essays on Science and Literature L. J. Jordanova. its inadequacies : Silas's reduction from a social to a purely physical being . Physiological psychology allows George Eliot to explore the disjunction between Silas's experience ...
Critical Essays on Science and Literature L. J. Jordanova. its inadequacies : Silas's reduction from a social to a purely physical being . Physiological psychology allows George Eliot to explore the disjunction between Silas's experience ...
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... Silas's psychic make - up , it merely reawakens dor- mant fibres . Though Eppie is compared to the angels who led men away from the city of destruction ( ch . XIV , 101 ) , there are no miracles involved in Silas's restoration : the ...
... Silas's psychic make - up , it merely reawakens dor- mant fibres . Though Eppie is compared to the angels who led men away from the city of destruction ( ch . XIV , 101 ) , there are no miracles involved in Silas's restoration : the ...
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Contributors | 7 |
Introduction | 15 |
Nature as Ethical Norm in the Enlightenment | 51 |
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