George Eliot's Felix Holt: An Overview

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Biographical Materials

• A Brief Biography (Website in the U. K.)
• A George Eliot Chronology (Website in Japan)

Social, Political, and Cultural Contexts

• Literary relations
• Eliza Lynn Linton on the novel

Theme and Technique

• Theme and Subject
• Setting and Description
  landscape setting embodies social and moral concerns
  • landscape setting and the eighteenth-century picturesque detailed Pre-Raphalite landscape settings
• Characterization
  • Three Stages in the Development of Characterization in George Eliot's Fiction
• Plot and Narrative Structure
• Symbol, Image, and Motif
  • prophetic pictures
• Genre and Style
  • Autobiography and Autobiographicality
  • Realism in Fiction
  • The political novel

Bibliography

Eliot, George. Felix Holt, the Radical. Ed. Fred C. Thomson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980. [now the standard scholarly text]

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