Kathrin Ehlen

George Eliot's "Silas Marner": How a Man's Life is Influenced By his Environment (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject German Studies - Comparative Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Paderborn (Germanistik und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft), course: Europäischer Realismus, language: English, abstract: George Eliot's Silas Marner, "that charming minor master piece" (in Eliot 252) as F. R. Lewis calls it, was published in 1861 by John Blackwood. Her publisher explains: "Silas Marner sprang from her childish recollection of a man with a stoop and an expression of face that led her to think that he was an alien from his fellows" (Eliot VII). This man was a weaver like Silas Marner. In making him the protagonist of her novel, George Eliot emphasizes his strangeness by adding short-sightedness and cataleptic fits to set him off from the people around him. The difficult process of this outsider's integration into society is the theme of the novel...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: GRIN Verlag
• Seitenzahl: 20
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783640942404
• Artikelnr.: 51522439