George Eliot: The Harmony of Idealism and Realism - English Doctoral Library of the PLA Foreign Languages Institute

Author: Zhen Xinfeng
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: This book explores the idealistic elements in the works of George Eliot, a recognized realist novelist, against the backdrop of the debate between the two main artistic modes (realism and idealism) in the mid-Victorian period. Through a detailed analysis of the increasingly prominent idealistic elements in her later three works, the book demonstrates that Eliot's aesthetic view evolved into a "synthetic" realism that reconciles idealism.