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Middlemarch:MedievalDiscourses

andWillLadislaw

JUDITHJOHNSTON

love,hagiography andmartyrology, systemswillenhance ourreadingofEliot'stexts l.

Earlier,Robert

Preyerdiscussedthe'failure'

ofDanielDerondaasattributabletothe 'difficultyinhandlingideas ofthissortinworksofrealisticfiction'2. and religiousallegoryto conflictmaybeexpressed inmanageableterms.Orderlyconflict permitspositivereactionwhich isfollowedbypartialresolution. incompletenature Piers salvation. isconfirmed

Sherecordslines53-57fromPassusXinthe

Folgernotebook

3, and Book

4•

inPiersPlowman p.104.

Deronda.Criticson

usethe abbreviations

FolgerorBergandaretothisedition.

4 125

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andthemetreofChaucer(pp.3-5). crisisinthenarrative, ortosignalachangeindirectionthatwill producesometype mustbereadasanintegralpart ofthenarrative,deliberatelychosen tothepattern throughout

CommonplaceBookamongagroup

ofsixquotationsfromTheCanterbury

Notebook'bothduplicatethelist,

andthelatteralsoduplicatesthe sixquotationsfromthe

1lJles

5•

acommonfacility:metamorphosis.Each ofthesemedievaldiscourses aform premises irrevocablyaltered

Willl..adislaw

thesefactorsaloneconfirmthatthecharacter ofWillisconceivedin thespirit of 126

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becausehe hissocialandvocationalquest.It isthiselementalone,thisfreedom, thatmakeshimthenaturalchoiceforDorothea atthenovel'send. allegory.Anothertropeaccompanies thatofallegory-medieval linkedtothequestmodeand

Willisdefinitivelyacharacterinquest

medievalromance, isusedinaveryparticularandcomplexway,to towardsthenarrator'sgoalforhim,hisreformed state.Thereaderhas understandhowEliotusesthechivalricmodein

Middlemarchtofree

thathisreformis chivalryandromance. 7 suggesting

Casaubon?

characters.Responding,Casauboncondemns

Willforalackof

becausetheyaregrowing'(pp.I07-8). that

6HenryJamesinGeorgeEliotandherReaders:A SelectionofContemporary

Reviews,

p.l1l.This

7GeorgeEliot,

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embryos'(p.109).

Thewordsmasqueradeanddisguisesuggestthe

complexities ofwhich him.Ido theoristswho'fallintothemistake ofsupposingthattheconscious allegorizing ofamoderncanbeareproductionofwhatthey acknowledgetobeunconsciousallegorizing intheancients'S. U.C.Knoepflmacher,however,associatesWillprimarily withthe 'will' circumstancesandincidents ofthejourneyare,eventually,more importantthanarrival.Knoepflmachersays ofWill: aspecialsignificance bycausal"laws". successfulY ends thejourney far-offpointEliotbegins

Middlemarch.

solelyembracethemannersandscenery ofthemedievalperiodin realismwithwhich questing forgiveness. even overturnedbecauseofhislackofknowledgeand 382,

PrincetonUniversityPress.1965).p.100.

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attempttomendforhim.

Asareligiousallegory,

PiersPlowmanhasoneimmediateobject

theological truth lO (will);andas 'poutingair beginningof offreedom' (p.IO?).

Plowman'inWarton's

HistoryofEnglishPoetry1I.ThisNote

explicatesBurrow'smoralagent (will)andmoralcensure(wilfulness).

Wartonhimselfopenshisdiscussion

ofPiersPlowmanbysaying: tohaveseen,whilehewassleeping. afteralongrambleonMalverns-hillsin

Worcestershire.(II:p.44)

thepages to atime forceshimtodevisehis ownvisionofacompletelife.12 smattering envisioningaprimaryunifyinginvolvement inasinglefieldofactivity' (p.45?).

1982),p.20.All

subsequentreferencesaretothisedition.

1840),

whichwaseditedbyRichardTaylor.

Fiction.28(1974).456.-

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isthe

Universalsalvationin

Universalreformin

Middlemarchbeginswithindividualreform.

MichaelMasonpoints

outthatinMiddlemarch'thefutureispresent inthenovel accomplished,universalreform isstilltocome. throughout ofit.Itispossibleto be'foundressofnothing' (p.26)becausetheenergychannelledinto toJohnBlackwoodon

27April1866:

thepeoplemustandwillbecomefreeagents' -aprophecywhichIhopeis 14 all,thetrueseeing imperfection'. supportsthenotionthatanindefiniteimage isfreetobeinterpreted inwhateverwayyouwill.'Trueseeing' istheindividual'svisionor interpretationthat ofcertaindetails. 425.

Press,1954-5;1978),

October1832)inthe"FelixHoltNotebook":

Nowthebeauty

mustand ortheywouldnever haveresisteditsenactmentwithsomuchpertinacityforthe lasttwoyears. 130

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Romanticism.Naumann's

dismissalofWillas'dilettantishand amateurish' only

Dreamer

characterizationofacreature inastateofmetamorphosis. tothepoemheisdressedinsheepskins, but ofthe point

Tale'andreads:

Hirefacoundeekefullwomanlyandplain,

Nocontrefetedtermeshadshe

Tosemenwise.Chaucer

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that isgeneratedby thecharacter,decisions,andactions ofWillLadislaw.Thisplotisinitiatedin

Dorothea

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