Chapter 1, George Eliot’s Theatricality 🎭 👇

Link to the e-chapter: academic.oup.com/book/62303/c...

From*Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP 26) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

#GeorgeEliot #AdamBede #TheMillOnTheFloss #HelenEdmundson

Coming soon.

#AdamBede #GeorgeEliot #HettyAndAdam #VictorianLiterature #RuralEngland #MoralFiction #EliotDebut #19thCenturyNovel #RealistFiction #BritishClassic

Finished reading: #AdamBede by #GeorgeEliot

6.10.25 → 6.23.25

This book takes a turn I did NOT see coming.

#BritishLiterature
#ClassicLiterature
#RegencyEra
#FatBooks
#novel
#booksky

Adam Bede was Eliot’s first long novel. She described the work as “a country story—full of the breath of cows & the scent of hay.” Its masterly realism—evident, for example, in the recording of Derbyshire dialect— (1/2)
146 TMP #AnthonyPowellTogether #Eliot #AdamBede