ENGL 330 Lecture Notes - Godfrey Cass, Silas Marner, Homosociality
7 May 2012
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The myth of the peddler who gathers momentum. Even someone who should know the truth, is willing to disregard. Male pseudo-name is adopted by the bronte sisters. Evans" novels continue to be printed under this name george eliot , regardless of killing it herself. Also engraved on her tombstone, above her legal name (mary-anne cross) Rosemary bothymer - a woman of many names. First 30 years provided her for material for several of her novels, but also the class society that is depicted in various novels. Victorian obsession of social aspiration and social repression. Story centers on the fruit of characters; centers on the norms of belief and clarity. Social trajectory landed her in a novelist tradition that was never labeled by class. George eliot was stretching the norms of female social expected behavior. Evan"s early anonymous essays were assumed to be written by a man; aligned herself with a male perspective.
