Andrew Dowling

Standard Name: Dowling, Andrew

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Reception George Eliot
A BBC adaptation of the novel, 2002, made marital rape a major feature in its interpretation of Grandcourt's silent cruelty which, as critic Andrew Dowling notes, operates as a sign of some truth beyond itself...

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Dowling, Andrew. “’The Other Side of Silence’: Matrimonial Conflict and the Divorce Court in George Eliot’s Fiction”. Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol.
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, No. 3, 1995, pp. 322-36.