George Eliot's novels and the Victorean features

Lucrare de licenta despre George Eliot's novels and the Victorean features
The reader of Victorian writings might as well discern the broken unity of the British which results from the main preoccupation of the people: the South kept its agricultural pattern, while the North was powerfully industrialized.

It is rather difficult to say whether the living conditions were better; the countryside was characterized by simplicity and poverty, wildness, the smoothly flowing of time; peasants perceived time in terms of the four seasons; on the other hand, life in a city was much more agitated, the social aspects were much various.

Nevertheless, townsfolk knew the absence of food, especially in times of rebellion. According to John Ruskin's opinion, Victorian writers reflected in their works the spirit of their time. Such examples are E. Gaskell's novel, North and South, Charlotte Bronte's Shirley, where the dark side of industrialization is so well represented. Strikes, tension, hatred, despair, chaos eventually are all consequences of the technological development condemned by major cultural personalities of Victorianism.

Lucrare de licenta despre George Eliot's novels and the Victorean features

Lucrare de licenta despre George Eliot's novels and the Victorean features
Cuprins

Introduction..................3
Argument......................5

Chapter I Historical contextualization.................8
Noteworthy events...............................8

Chapter II Women's status.....................10
2.1 Women's (non-) education..................10
2.2 The woman within her family...............12

Chapter III George Eliot- a spokesman of victorianism.................14
3.1 Adam Bede.....................17
3.1.1 The two Adam Bede.......................18
3.1.2 Feminine typologies.....................20
Appreciations.....................23
3.2.The mill on the floss.....................25

Chapter IV The literary universe of George Eliot's novels.............
The endless end...................31
Sister in love....................33
Poisoned innocence................37
Silas marner......................40
Urban VS. Rural...................41
Treasures.........................42
Signs of women's emancipation.....44
Conclusions.......................

Bibliographical references

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