The Female Characters of George Eliot:

Abstract: This 22 page report discusses the writer George Eliot (1819-1880) and her remarkable ability to present the women of Victorian England to the literary world. Typically, Victorian literature presents an idealization of women as passionless and innately virtuous models of feminine behavior. Eliot came to occupy a central position in English literary circles and was thought of as bold and unconventional in both her personal life and her work. Her writing most often compares industrialization with the halcyon and generally rural archetype and offers a discourse on the limitations and suffering caused by gender and class discrimination, as well as individual characters

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Catagory: American Literature

Subcatagory: Literature

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