Studies in the Novel, September 22nd, 2002
I have arrived at faith in the past, but not faith in the future (George Eliot to William Blackwell, 6 May 1859, Letters 3:66)
Commenced in 1857 and published in 1859, Adam Bede, like most of George Eliot's novels, is noticeable for its apparent lack of topicality and the absence of any reference to the political debates of the day. (1) Opening in 1799, Adam Bede elides a history of political conflict--Swing riots, Luddites, and Chartism--that would have resonated with particular clarity for Victorian readers in the reform-minded 1850s. Set in England's rural and remembered past, the novel ...
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