George Eliot's Scenes from Clerical Life

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General Materials

• A Brief Biography (Website in the U. K.)
• A George Eliot Chronology (Website in Japan)

Social, Political, and Cultural Contexts

• Literary relations

Theme and Technique

• Theme and Subject
  • Show the germs of her future greatness as well as the persistency of her aim
• Setting and Description
• • Three Stages in the Development of Characterization in George Eliot's Fiction
  • Phenrology and Characterization
• Plot and Narrative Structure
• Symbol, Image, and Motif
  • Typological Imagery in Scenes from Clerical Life
• Genre and Style
  • Autobiography and Autobiographicality
  • Realism in Fiction

Bibliography

Eliot, George. Scenes from Clerical Life. Ed. Thomas A. Noble. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. [now the standard scholarly text]

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