Silenced angels: an obscure Saint Theresa in George Eliot s Middlemarch

• Ano de defesa: 2012
• Autor(a) principal: Rosa, Débora Souza da
• Orientador(a): Monteiro, Maria Conceição
• Banca de defesa: Tolentino, Magda Velloso Fernandes de , Souza, Roberto Acízelo Quelha de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras
• Departamento: Centro de Educação e Humanidades::Instituto de Letras
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Anjo do Lar; Santa Teresa; Era Vitoriana; Moralidade burguesa.; Eliot, George, 1819-1880 Crítica e interpretação; Eliot, George, 1819-1880. Middlemarch; Mulheres na literatura Aspectos morais e religiosos Séc. XIX; Literatura inglesa Aspectos sociais - Séc. XIX; Teresa, de Ávila, Santa, 1515-1582; Mulheres História Séc. XIX; Morte de Deus (Teologia) - Aspectos sociais Séc. XIX
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Angel in the House; Saint Theresa; Death of God; Victorian Era; Bourgeois morality.
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::LINGUISTICA, LETRAS E ARTES::LETRAS::LITERATURAS ESTRANGEIRAS MODERNAS
• Link de acesso: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/6453

The present dissertation s purpose is the comparison proposed by George Eliot in the Prelude of the novel Middlemarch between its protagonist, Dorothea Brooke, and the historical character Teresa of Avila. Such study endeavors to understand in which way the specific situation of the Victorian woman is articulated within the novel as to mirror the ontological and epistemological crisis of the human being itself during the transformations consolidated by the Enlightenment and the liberal revolutions of the eighteenth century which culminated in the death of God . Dorothea is as ardent a Christian as the fifteenth century Teresa, but she lacks the certainties and the resolution to concretize the social reforms she defends, because she incarnates the nineteenth century myth of womanhood known as the Angel in the House an ideal of feminine subjection to the phalocentric order whose functions are the protection and diffusion of the bourgeois morality and the replacement of Christian elements within the imaginary universe of the sacred to a society progressively more materialistic and insecure of absolute values. The afflictions of Dorothea represent the afflictions of the Victorian woman, but the critical moment of this woman reflects, in Middlemarch, a much greater crisis in the Western thought, which began with the Age of Reason