Biography EssayThe most learned and respected novelist of the late Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biog...
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George Eliot was the pen name used by the English novelist Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880), one of the most important writers of European fiction. Her masterpiece, Middlemarch, is not only a major social d...
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The most learned and respected novelist of the later Victorian period, George Eliot suffered a decline in reputation after her death and into the early twentieth century because the biography stitched...
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George Eliot is widely recognized as one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century; yet, more often than not, her two volumes of poetry are ignored in modern critical assessments. Like s...
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George Eliot wrote nearly all of her nonfiction prose during two widely separated periods in her life. As Marian Evans, in her mid thirties, she produced more than sixty critical essays that appeared ...
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In the following essay, Thomson claims that Felix Holt is mistakenly considered a political novel and that Holt himself is more Positivist than radical, reflecting Eliot's basically conservativ...
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In the following essay, Leavis discusses how the failure of Felix Holt led to the success of Middlemarch.
In our time when literary criticism has been generally discarded for the fashionable mechanics...
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In the following essay, Thompson evaluates Eliot's many references and allusions to Dante in Felix Holt.
In his introduction to George Eliot—A Writer's Notebook 1854-1879, Joseph ...
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In the following essay, Wilt explores the transformation of Felix Holt from doctor to radical and the role of secrets within the narrative in accounting for that transformation.
What on earth happened...
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In the following essay, Booth discusses elements of feminism in Felix Holt, claiming that the novel criticizes injustices related to gender as well as to class.
Once George Eliot had established herse...
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In the following essay, Hockberg explores Eliot's use of names in Felix Holt to encode literary and historical references.
Felix Holt, one of the least read of George Eliot's works, prov...
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In the following essay, Bode suggests that Eliot's use of “politics” in Felix Holt extends beyond the scope of government and public life into the private relationships between me...
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In the following essay, Lesjak discusses Eliot's representation of the working class, which she removes from the productive sphere and situates within the domestic sphere in order to minimize c...
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In the following essay, Carroll discusses Eliot's use of Orientalism in Felix Holt through the character of Harold Transome, who is neither English nor Eastern.
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In the following essay, Hobson claims that Eliot was the first major writer to invest a labor activist character with social importance and moral value, and to recognize that class divisions would not...
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In the following essay, Starr discusses Eliot's beliefs on the relationship between authorship and commerce in Felix Holt.
For George Eliot, as for many successful Victorian novelists, moral in...
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In the following essay, Horowitz discusses the way Eliot uses Felix Holt to articulate her personal vision for reform of English society.
Not until Felix Holt the Radical does George Eliot bring indus...
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In the following essay, Bamber discusses Eliot's efforts to deal with the political situation in Felix Holt dialectically and her failure to offer precise political options through her represen...
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In the following essay, Gallagher discusses Eliot's departure in Felix Holt from the conventions associated with English realism toward a more sophisticated narrative form.
In a London art gall...
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In the following essay, Vance defends the unity and coherence of Felix Holt, concentrating on issues of land ownership and religious dissent, and comparing the period of the novel's setting wit...
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In the following essay, Sheets explores issues of miscommunication and misunderstanding in Felix Holt.
Mr. Wace, a successful brewer and minor character in Felix Holt, assumes that the ownership of la...
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In the following essay, Sandler examines the characters Esther and Rufus Lyon and the radicalism of Felix Holt, arguing for the unity of the novel's domestic and political themes.
The commentat...
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In the following essay, Pykett examines the relationship between Eliot's Felix Holt and Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy.
It has become commonplace for students of George Eliot to re...
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In the following essay, Rogers discusses Eliot's criticism of frivolity and materialism in middle-class women in Felix Holt, a criticism shared by Leo Tolstoy, who admired the novel.
Tolstoj re...
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In the following essay, Carroll discusses George Eliot's characterization of Harold Transome in her novel Felix Holt, asserting that “he is as tainted by his identity as an imperialist E...
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George Eliot
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