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23 de set. de 2022 · Analysis of George Eliot’s Janet’s Repentance. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on September 23, 2022. “Janet’s Repentance” is part of a trio of stories by George Eliot that was first serialized as Scenes of Clerical Life in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine.
Janet's Repentance presents, unusually for the nineteenth century, a realist depiction of bourgeois domestic violence. "Its hallmarks are male aggression, female passivity and lack of self-esteem, and the wilful inaction of the surrounding community."
Janet's Repentance by George Eliot Chapter I 'No!' said lawyer Dempster, in a loud, rasping, oratorical tone, struggling against chronic huskiness, 'as long as my Maker grants me power of voice and power of intellect, I will take every legal means to resist the introduction of demoralizing, methodistical doctrine into this parish; I will not ...
30 de mai. de 2024 · Eliot, George, 1819-1880. "Janet's Repentance." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, vol. 82, July-December 1857, pp. 55-76, 189-206, 329-344, 457-473, 519-541.
“Janet’s Repentance” resembles a contemporary moral tale, 1 in which an idealist’s rebellious struggle against brutal wife abuse, leading to her alcoholism, is resolved by her wifely submission.
- June Skye Szirotny
- 2015
George Eliot wrote “Janet’s Repentance” as one of her Scenes from Clerical Life (1857) to support Barbara Leigh Smith’s campaign for freer access to divorce. Eliot was inspired to sign Smith’s petition by brutal stories of abused wives such as Caroline Norton.
“Janet’s Repentance” resembles a contemporary moral tale,1 in which an idealist’s rebellious struggle against brutal wife abuse, leading to her alcoholism, is resolved by her wifely submission.
