Gould, Rebecca Ruth (2012) 'Adam Bede's dutch realism and the novelist's point of view.' Philosophy and Literature, 36 (2). pp. 404-423.
Abstract
In her first novel, Adam Bede (1859), George Eliot offered the first systematic defense of her literary aesthetic. Eliot turned to early modern Dutch painting to justify her choice to render the quotidian life of the non-elite, and thereby provocatively extended philosophical and literary approaches to representation. Whereas Hegel’s wariness toward the Dutch painterly aesthetic participates in modern philosophy’s quest to transcend the mundane, Eliot’s celebration of the mundane reveals the sublimity of everyday experience, and helps us overcome the “philosophy-as-epistemology” that, in Richard Rorty’s argument, characterizes and limits modern thought.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > School of Languages, Cultures & Linguistics |
| ISSN: | 01900013 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2012.0031 |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Oct 2023 18:21 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/40540 |
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