Felix Holt: The RadicalWhen the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of Treby Magna with his decision to stand for Parliament as a Radical. But after the idealistic Felix Holt also returns to the town, the difference between Harold's opportunistic values and Holt's profound beliefs becomes apparent. Forthright, brusque and driven by a firm desire to educate the working-class, Felix is at first viewed with suspicion by many, including the elegant but vain Esther Lyon, the daughter of the local clergyman. As she discovers, however, his blunt words conceal both passion and deep integrity. Soon the romantic and over-refined Esther finds herself overwhelmed by a heart-wrenching decision: whether to choose the wealthy Transome as a husband, or the impoverished but honest Felix Holt. |
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... once exasperated, the passionateness of his nature threw off the yoke of a long-trained consciousness in which thought and emotion had been more and more completely mingled, and concentrated itself in a rage as ungovernable as that of ...
... once exasperated, the passionateness of his nature threw off the yoke of a long-trained consciousness in which thought and emotion had been more and more completely mingled, and concentrated itself in a rage as ungovernable as that of ...
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... once preferred but which, in the light of the 'inward revolution' she undergoes, come to seem 'like last night's decorations seen in the sober dawn'. Reassessment and re-evaluation, of literature as of life, form another sphere of ...
... once preferred but which, in the light of the 'inward revolution' she undergoes, come to seem 'like last night's decorations seen in the sober dawn'. Reassessment and re-evaluation, of literature as of life, form another sphere of ...
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... once suing for her hand – one of whom, uniting very high birth with long dark eyelashes and the most distinguished talents, she secretly preferred.' Eliot, however, prefers its subversion, for though Esther is indeed discovered to be a ...
... once suing for her hand – one of whom, uniting very high birth with long dark eyelashes and the most distinguished talents, she secretly preferred.' Eliot, however, prefers its subversion, for though Esther is indeed discovered to be a ...
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... once accepted social signifiers are questioned and found wanting, and notions of 'superior' and 'inferior', 'lady' and 'gentleman' all shift the values which they had once held for her. 'Securing the best', as in Eliot's account of ...
... once accepted social signifiers are questioned and found wanting, and notions of 'superior' and 'inferior', 'lady' and 'gentleman' all shift the values which they had once held for her. 'Securing the best', as in Eliot's account of ...
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... own 'heroism' in the trial scene, and discarding the 'littleness' of which she herself was once accused. 'Likeness' in this context is proved without doubt. NOTES 1. See also Appendix A. 2. See Chapter XXXV, note 3. 3. John Morley, ...
... own 'heroism' in the trial scene, and discarding the 'littleness' of which she herself was once accused. 'Likeness' in this context is proved without doubt. NOTES 1. See also Appendix A. 2. See Chapter XXXV, note 3. 3. John Morley, ...
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