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George Eliot also avails herself of this standard template at the end of F elix Halt: The Radical, its 'Epilogue' sketching the future course of her characters' lives through present-tense clauses (,As to the town in which Felix Holt now resides'2), clauses that catapult the reader from 1833 to the date of composition, thirty-three years on.
In the evening, when Mr. Lyon was expecting the knock at the door that would announce Felix Holt, he occupied his cushionless arm-chair in the sitting-room, and was skimming rapidly, in his short-sighted way, by the light of one candle, the pages of a missionary report, emitting occasionally a slight "Hm-m" that appeared to be expressive of criticism rather than of approbation.
16 de dez. de 2022 · George Eliot ’s Felix Holt (1866) is known for its exemplary commitment to historical accuracy in its depiction of Reform Act England. That reputation that so often precedes it, however, can lead to under-appreciation of the equally meticulous “private” worlds of the novel. The “radical” concerns of public life in Felix Holt – of ...
DOI: 10.2307/georelioghlstud.56-57-1.0119 Corpus ID: 246629874; Public Spaces And The Political Underworld In George Eliot'S "Felix Holt: The Radical" @article{Volkova2009PublicSA, title={Public Spaces And The Political Underworld In George Eliot'S "Felix Holt: The Radical"}, author={I. A. Volkova}, journal={George Eliot - George Henry Lewes Studies}, year={2009}, url={https://api ...
Introduction to Felix Holt, the Radical, by George Eliot. New York: Penguin Books, 1972. Offers a full historical background for the political context of the novel, including legal complexities ...
Felix Holt, The Radical by George Eliot Introduction FIVE-AND-THIRTY years ago the glory had not yet departed from the old coach-roads; the great roadside inns were still brilliant with well-polished tankards, the smiling glances of pretty barmaids, and the repartees of jocose ostlers; the mail still announced itself by the merry notes of the horn; the hedge-cutter or the rick-thatcher might ...
Felix Holt is a novel of politics. It is set on the eve of the enactment of the Reform Bill of 1832, and the background to the main action of the novel is a parliamentary election in a Midlands district. English politics in the period could be very violent and corrupt, and Eliot shows us the system in action more vividly than any other ...
