George Eliot: Literary Relations

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Individual Authors and Texts

• The Bible
  • Biblical symbolism in Eliot's early fiction
• Ovid
• Charlotte Brontë
• Bulwer-Lytton
• Thomas Carlyle
• Margaret Fuller, Mary Shelley, and George Eliot
• Eliot, Hardy, and Literary Pictorialism
• Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Henry James
• Johann Caspar Lavater
• G. E. Lessing
• Eliot finds Pater's Renaissance "poisonous"
• John Ruskin
  • Ruskin's Influence: a Summary
  • Ruskin, Eliot, and the Problem of Evil
• Edmund Spenser
• Alfred Tennyson
• Narrators in Trollope and Eliot
• Oscar Wilde
• • Prophetic pictures in Wilde and Eliot
  • Isaac as inversion of Daniel Deronda
• William Wordsworth

Critical Reception and Reputation

• A Brief History of Critical Attitudes toward Silas Marner
• Eliot and Periodical Journalism

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Last modified 2 February 2011