Before Adam Bede, Marian Evans ran the Westminster Review and wrote some of the fiercest criticism of the 1850s: Silly Novels by Lady Novelists, the demolition of Dr Cumming’s evangelicalism, the essay on Riehl that contains her whole theory of realism, and Heine on wit.
George Eliot’s criticism, and the arguments her novels were built on. Download the free EPUB.