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

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.

CONTENTS
Editor's Note
Introduction (Harold Bloom)
Silas Marner (Philip Fisher)
The Weaver of Raveloe: Metaphor as Narrative Persuasion in Silas Marner (Meri-Jane Rochelson)
George Eliot's Conception of Sympathy (Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth)
Biblical Realism in Silas Marner (Harold Fisch)
Statesman, Dwarf and Weaver: Wordsworth and Nineteenth-Century Narrative (Angus Easson)
Adam Bede (1858) and Silas Marner (1861) (Kerry McSweeney)
Epilogue: Part 2 of Silas Marner (Patrick Swinden)
'Light Enough to Trusten By': Structure and Experience in Silas Marner (Terence Dawson)
George Eliot's Shorter Fiction (Alan W. Bellringer)
Silas Marner and the Anonymous Heroism of Parenthood (Henry Alley)
George Eliot's 'Glue Test': Language, Law, and Legitimacy in Silas Marner (Efraim Sicher)
Chronology
Contributors
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index