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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... political and historical background of the First Reform Act. 'I took a great deal of pains to get a true idea of the period,' she wrote to Blackwood in April 1866. Certainly this appears no understatement; Henry Fawcett's The Economic ...
... political and historical background of the First Reform Act. 'I took a great deal of pains to get a true idea of the period,' she wrote to Blackwood in April 1866. Certainly this appears no understatement; Henry Fawcett's The Economic ...
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... political figure in the novel, does not begin to exist,' R. T. Jones likewise asserts.10 In this context, Felix Holt, in spite of Blackwood's pleasure as he accepted the novel for publication, has thus often been counted among Eliot's ...
... political figure in the novel, does not begin to exist,' R. T. Jones likewise asserts.10 In this context, Felix Holt, in spite of Blackwood's pleasure as he accepted the novel for publication, has thus often been counted among Eliot's ...
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... political tenets. The issues of reform which concern Eliot are social rather than political, and individual as well as communal; in Eliot's text the personal can be political in ways which transcend the narrow definitions of party and ...
... political tenets. The issues of reform which concern Eliot are social rather than political, and individual as well as communal; in Eliot's text the personal can be political in ways which transcend the narrow definitions of party and ...
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... political should, however, be kept in mind. As she stressed in 1848, 'There is nothing in our Constitution to obstruct the slow progress of political reform. That is all we are fit for at present.'13 These same reservations about political ...
... political should, however, be kept in mind. As she stressed in 1848, 'There is nothing in our Constitution to obstruct the slow progress of political reform. That is all we are fit for at present.'13 These same reservations about political ...
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... political action. Neither is tenable from Felix's point of view. 'If the mob can't be turned back, a man of family must try and head the mob, and save a few homes and hearths, and keep the country up on its last legs as long as he can ...
... political action. Neither is tenable from Felix's point of view. 'If the mob can't be turned back, a man of family must try and head the mob, and save a few homes and hearths, and keep the country up on its last legs as long as he can ...
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