“[G]irlish Passion and Vanity”: Female Anger and Sympathy in George Eliot’s Early Novels
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2020-05
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Kilmer, Kerri
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George Eliot’s conception of sympathy in her early novels relies on anger, specifically the anger
of her female characters, to be defined. Their repressed anger and identities represent and coopt Eliot’s project of sympathy precisely because it is denied to them within the novels.