George Eliot's Silas Marner (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 079107045X ISBN 13: 9780791070451

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub, 2002

Synopsis

Considered by some as enchanting as a fairy tale and in some ways as simple in its approach, George Eliot's Silas Marner extends well beyond such a sphere. The text focuses on the evils of religion and society, both of which ostracize those they do not understand. Study the novel through the work of some of the most respected critics on the subject.

The title, George Eliot’s Silas Marner, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Interpretations series, presents the most important 20th-century criticism on George Eliot’s Silas Marner through extracts of critical essays by well-known literary critics. This collection of criticism also features a short biography on George Eliot, a chronology of the author’s life, and an introductory essay written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.

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Book Description

Cambridge Literature is a series of literary texts edited for study by students aged 14-18 in English-speaking classrooms. It will include novels, poetry, short stories, essays, travel-writing and other non-fiction. The series will be extensive and open-ended and will provide school students with a range of edited texts taken from a wide geographical spread.

From the Publisher

Embittered by a false accusation, disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a long twilight life alone with his loom. . . and his gold. Silas hoards a treasure that kills his spirit until fate steals it from him and replaces it with a golden-haired founding child. Where she came from, who her parents were, and who really stole the gold are the secrets that permeate this moving tale of guilt and innocence. A moral allegory of the redemptive power of love, it is also a finely drawn picture of early nineteenth-century England in the days when spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses, and of a simple way of life that was soon to disappear.

"I think Silas Marner holds a higher place than any of the author's works. It is more nearly a masterpiece; it has more of that simple, rounded, consummate aspect. . .which marks a classical work." -- Henry James

Edition details

• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 079107045X
• ISBN 13: 9780791070451
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 197
• Editor: Bloom Harold, Marson Janyce, Loos Pamela