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Article: The web of necessity: George Eliot's theory of ideology.(Characters in Narrative and a Discourse of Intoxication)(Critical Essay)
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- Texas Studies in Literature and Language
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- September 22, 2000
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The medium: For years after Lydgate remembered the impression
produced in him by this involuntary appeal--this cry from soul to
soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred
natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully
illuminated life.
(Middlemarch, 200)
Metaphors: Poor Mr Casaubon had imagined that his long studious