In George Eliot's first full-length novel, Adam Bede, she planned to write "a simple story." She wished to paint "faithful pictures of a monotonous homely existence," that would be "the faithful representing of common-place things." (p.183) This determination to write of ordinary people, and more specifically of the working class, was part of the reaction of Victorian writers against the romantic hero; George Eliot takes great pains to remind the reader that she is writing of common-place people, not of "the loftier sorrows of heroines in satin boots and crinoline, and of heroes riding fiery horses, themselves ridden by still more fiery passions."
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.113729 |
| Date | January 1962 |
| Creators | Morris, Margaret. D. |
| Contributors | Lucas, A. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts. (Department of English.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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