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The one vs. the many : minor characters and the space of the protagonist in the novel
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Epic World Citizenship in Goethe's Hermann und Dorothea
TL;DR: Goethe's epic Hermann and Dorothea as mentioned in this paper describes the mutual recognition of one another's reflection in the well as they fetch "water for the other refugees" in the village of Teutoburger Forest.
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The Self-Made Son: Social Competition and the Vanishing Mother in Franklin's Autobiography
TL;DR: Benjamin Franklin says little about his mother, Abiah, in the Autobiography, and critics have ignored her presence, presumably with the view that his reticence should be the model for our own.
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Forgetting thackeray and unmaking careers
TL;DR: This article pointed out that Thackeray is either consciously or unconsciously evaded by many scholars seeking to develop overarching, defining accounts of the nineteenth-century novel, and pointed out the difficulty of finding a dominant critical account to argue against.
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Large-Scale Sympathy and Simultaneity in George Eliot's Romola
TL;DR: The authors argue that large-scale sympathy estranges the subject from the specificity of individual experience, and see a fault line at the heart of George Eliot's work, whereby the necessity of imagining the simultaneous experience of others is continually brought into conflict with the impossibility of doing so.