Style and Ethics in George Eliot
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Buzard How George Eliot Works finished version.pdf
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Buzard, James
Alternative Title
How George Eliot Works
Date Issued
December 2017
Journal
Raritan: A Quarterly Review
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Raritan Quarterly
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Buzard, James. "How George Eliot Works." Raritan: A Quarterly Review 36, 3 (December 2017) © 2017 Raritan Quarterly
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Abstract
The great problem of the shifting relation between passion and duty is clear to no man who is capable of apprehending it: the question, whether the moment has come in which a man has fallen below the possibility of a renunciation that will carry any efficacy, and must accept the sway of a passion against which he had struggled as a trespass, is one for which we have no master key that will fit all cases. The casuists have become a by-word of reproach; but their perverted spirit of discrimination was the shadow of a truth to which eyes and hearts are too often fatally sealed: the truth, that moral judgments must remain false and hollow, unless they
are checked and enlightened by a perpetual reference to the special
circumstances that mark the individual lot.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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