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- Title
GEORGE ELIOT'S COMPLEX REALISM. RURAL, SOCIAL, MORAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL REALISM IN ADAM BEDE.
- Authors
BRÎNDAŞ, ECATERINA OANA
- Abstract
The present study aims to discuss the nowelty brought in the literary field by Eliot's complex realistic approach in her literary representations. The first part of the work focuses on the transition to Victorian literary realism and the way in which Eliot manages to masterfully bridge the distance between time gaps by acknowledging that each age, though irrevocably separated from that preceding it, must reinterpret the past it has lost in order to arrange its own present. It also discusses Eliot's strong commitment to the moral vocation of art and her attempt to shape her literary creed that art is moral only if it is aesthetically effective. The second part of the study deals with Adam Bede, Eliot's first experimentation with this new type of novel that was quite a novelty and a radical innovation in its time. The focus is on the way in which Eliot manages to embody in one novel her commitment to rustic, social, moral and psychological realism altogether as a literary genre by rejecting the reigning social, religious, and literary aesthetic conventions based on didacticism and focusing on adopting realistic plots, settings and common characters modeled on the image of her present world. Her endeavor represents an unusual phenomenon, at least at the time when Eliot began her career as a novelist.
- Subjects
ELIOT, George, 1819-1880; MORAL realism; PSYCHOLOGICAL fiction; REALISM; LITERARY form; MORAL attitudes; LITERARY characters
- Publication
Caesura: Journal of Philological & Humanistic Studies, 2019, p85
- ISSN
2360-3372
- Publication type
Article