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George Eliot and the fetish of realism.(Critical Essay)
From: Studies in the Literary Imagination
Date: 20020922
Author:Logan, Peter Melville
On 29 May 1856, while at Ilfracombe with George Lewes, Marian Evans watched the local celebration of the end of the Crimean War. (1) In her account of the incident, she describes a parade, an outdoor tea, and other examples of local eccentricities, and then refers to the event as a "bit of primitive provincial life" (Letters 2: 248). (2) This association of primitivity with provincialism is deliberate. She and George H. Lewes were in the middle of a naturalist expedition to collect specimens of mollusks and anemones, a biological form of "primitive" life, and her observations of ...
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