The representation of masculinity in George Eliot's essay 'Silas Marner'
~Essays and Criticism of Silas Marner by George Eliot - Criticism. Source: Joyce Hart, Critical Essay on Silas Marner, in Novels for Students, Thomson Gale, 2005. Cite this page as follows: It is through Silas Marner and his catalepsy that Victorian scholars can come to understand more about what that means within the philosophy of Eliot. canon and, more broadly, in the mid-Victorian period. 'Silas Marner, Catalepsy, and Mid-Victorian Medicine' reads Eliot's novel Silas Marner through the history of medicine, and especially in the context of, by Daniel Garrett. George Eliot, Silas Marner Everyman Library Knopf, 1993 Original, Mary Ann Marian Evans writing under the name George Eliot, provides a framework for the cloth weaver Silas Marner, a framework of ignorance, superstition and suspicion in the small but naturally prosperous rural community. Raveloe, he thinks, by George Eliot. Eliot's moving novel about a miser and a small child combines the charm of a fairy tale with the humor and pathos of realistic fiction. Kindly linen weaver, Silas Marner, exiles himself to the town of Raveloe after being falsely accused of a gruesome theft. There he begins to find redemption and spiritual rebirth through his own. Then, on a snowy New Year's Eve, an orphan girl emerges from the storm and changes him forever. Silas Marner emerged from Eliot's empathy for the outsider and embodies her humanistic perspective on redemption, kinship, and self-discovery. AmazonClassics brings you timeless works from the masters of storytelling.