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Eliot expresses great sympathy for religious faith, especially when it is lived as well as preached (something she does in Felix Holt, the Radical) as well.
I've compared her before to Anthony Trollope, but while Trollope deals mainly with the ruling class--including the working and agricultural classes as supporting characters--Eliot examines with an eye as keen as Trollope's these underclass milieus and brings them to vibrant life.
Interestingly, Eliot interrupts the narrative to deliver a treatise on novel writing, elaborating for several pages on the theme of "holding the mirror up to nature," although she does not use that term.
She also includes an inner monolog that articulates a theme of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, although she presents it in Christian tradition terms rather than Buddhist terms.
Highly recommended.
I've compared her before to Anthony Trollope, but while Trollope deals mainly with the ruling class--including the working and agricultural classes as supporting characters--Eliot examines with an eye as keen as Trollope's these underclass milieus and brings them to vibrant life.
Interestingly, Eliot interrupts the narrative to deliver a treatise on novel writing, elaborating for several pages on the theme of "holding the mirror up to nature," although she does not use that term.
She also includes an inner monolog that articulates a theme of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha, although she presents it in Christian tradition terms rather than Buddhist terms.
Highly recommended.