George Eliot's Silas Marner

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject German Studies - Comparative Literature grade: 20 University of Paderborn (Germanistik und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft) course: Europischer Realismus language: English abstract: George Eliot''s Silas Marner that charming minor master piece (in Eliot 252) as F. R. Lewis calls it was published in 1861 by John Blackwood. Her publisher explains: Silas Marner sprang from her childish recollection of a man with a stoop and an expression of face that led her to think that he was an alien from his fellows (Eliot VII). This man was a weaver like Silas Marner. In making him the protagonist of her novel George Eliot emphasizes his strangeness by adding short-sightedness and cataleptic fits to set him off from the people around him. The difficult process of this outsider''s integration into society is the theme of the novel...