Mill on the Flossby George Eliot | |
| List(s): | "Carp 500" "Racine Library List" |
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| Category: |
"Fiction - General" |
| Pages: | 558 |
| Year of Publication: | 1860 |
| Date Read: | 08/29/1993 |
| Notes: | Mill on the Floss sympathetically portrays the efforts of Maggie Tulliver to adapt to her provincial world. The tragedy of her plight is underlined by the actions of her brother Tom, whose sense of family honor leads him to forbid her to associate with the one friend who appreciates her intelligence and imagination. COMMENTS — Mary Ann Evans was deeply divided as a person, full of contradictory impulses. Profoundly religious when growing up, she moved toward a rationalism and secularity that never completely replaced her earlier Calvinism. She wanted a Christianity with her own kind of Christ; she wanted not a church but an individual who was his or her own church; she found in reason, logic and intelligence a replacement for a God she could no longer believe in or accept. And yet none of this was easily resolved, as we observe in her best fiction. Like most great artists, she left a good deal open to interpretation. (Don’t blame me for this stuff. That’s what it said on the internet.) |
| My Rating: | 8 |
Reviewed by Roger on 2003-07-20 19:37:49
