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Dr. Karen A. Droisen: George Eliot (3164 words) |
 | Eliot agonized over her decision to live with Lewes: she knew that it would cost her her social standing and her relationship with her brother Isaac, to whom she had once been as devoted as Maggie is to Tom in The Mill on the Floss. |
| Eliot’s novels are often compared to those of Leo Tolstoy: literary historians tend to regard her as among the most talented and influential Realist novelists in England. |
| Literary critics typically distinguish Eliot’s fiction from that of her contemporaries by pointing to its effective integration of close psychological studies of her characters and intellectually rigorous philosophical arguments. |
| Books -- Bernard J. Paris (6403 words) |
| Karen Horney's synchronic approach is particularly useful for the study of literature because it explains behavior in terms of its function within the present character structure and does not require the positing of infantile experiences not depicted in the text. |
| George Eliot saw her novels as a set of "experiments in life" in which she tested her beliefs by clothing them in human figures and individual experience, and I accepted her epistemological claims. |
| George Eliot thought that clothing her ideas in human form and individual experience would provide a kind of experimental confirmation; but instead her imagined human beings often subverted the ideas she was trying to verify. |
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