George Eliot's Silas Marner

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Biographical Introductory Materials

• A Brief Biography

Literary relations

• Eliza Lynn Linton on the novel
• A Brief History of Critical Attitudes toward Silas Marner
• Eneas Dallas on Silas Marner

Theme and Subject

• Fathers, Daughters, Silas Marner, and Eliot's Career

Setting and Description

• (Material needed)

Characterization

• Three Stages in the Development of Characterization in George Eliot's Fiction

Plot and Narrative Structure

• “Unreal and almost impossible in plot”

Political and economic themes and contexts

• Eliot uses productive labor and capitalist subjectivity to remake community

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Last modified 4 January 2020