Titlebook: George Eliot: The Novels; Mike Edwards Textbook 2003Latest edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2003 environment.George

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Characterseal with extremes of good or evil, wealth or poverty, and avoids the extreme ends of the social spectrum, preferring to describe the modest aspirations, moderate habits and average acumen of the rural communities of the midlands; the very title of . points unambiguously to her intention. Significant

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Relationshipsn the last chapter that discussion of character and characterisation inevitably strays into the domain of relationships. Through recognition of the expectations of others, and through acceptance or avoidance of responsibilities to others, her characters define themselves. Furthermore, the behaviour

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Societylusion of historical reality within which her characters exist. Though the social worlds of the novels are distinct from each other, they all share something of the quality of the conceit that dominates . — the web. This chapter does not attempt to sum up Eliot’s thinking about society, nor does it

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Conclusions second is to formulate some conclusions about the way she works and how she treats the essential themes of her novels; each ending may be expected to reflect the stylistic and technical features as well as the subject matter of the novel it belongs to. In this chapter, it is especially important to

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George Eliot’s Life and Work a steady conscientiousness and seriousness that express the highest aspirations of a great period in British history. She thus illuminates the contrary impulses of conservatism and revolution that guided her era. It is perhaps consistent with the depth and complexity of her personality that she sho

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The Context of George Eliot’s Work century. During her lifetime the railway networks were established, the penny post that became uniform in 1840 revolutionised communications, and, in her final years, the first telephone exchange began to operate in London. The Industrial Revolution bore fruit in thriving coal and steel industries

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Some Critical Approaches selected pieces that complement Part 1 of this book. The critics represented here deal with Eliot’s narrative method, with her sense of history and with the question of gender. The earliest of the pieces is from Barbara Hardy’s . (London: Peter Owen, 1982) and deals with the development of Eliot’s

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Stan Kaye,Robert Brown,Martin Gore aspects of her early work, and the third is the pinnacle of her later writing. ., Eliot’s second full novel, was published in 1860, the year after . It is distinctive in two fundamental respects. With some close parallels in the earlier pages between the protagonist and the author, it is her most a