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ESTHER SUMMERSON'S BIBLICAL JUDGMENT: QUEEN ESTHER AND THE FALLEN WOMAN IN BLEAK HOUSE.

In literary criticism to date, intertextual invocation of the biblical Queen Esther in the Victorian novel has been explained as one that invokes "womanly virtue." By drawing on the meanings that had accumulated around the name "Esther" in the Victorian period, this article argues instead for Queen...

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Published in:Religion & Literature Vol. 50; no. 3; pp. 71 - 94
Main Author: Carruthers, Jo
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Religion & Literature Autumn2018
Subjects:
Judgment (Psychology)
Bleak House (Book : Dickens)
Carruthers, Jo
Esther, Queen of Persia
Victorian Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901
Protagonists (Persons)
Illegitimacy
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