PREACHER AS A CHARACTER IN THE CREATIVE WORK OF LEO TOLSTOY AND GEORGE ELIOT by Irina Fedorovna Gnyusova

“…George Eliot also accents these features in the key characters of her books, analyzed in this article (Janet’s repentance, Adam Bede and Felix Holt, the Radical). Eliot’s version of preaching becomes a certain guide for Tolstoy in the process of shaping a new type of character in his late works.…”
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The treatment of the recent past in nineteenth-century fiction, with particular reference to George Eliot by Wilkes, J, Wilkes, Joanne Claire

“…Its main focus is on the fiction of George Eliot set in the recent past: <em>Scenes of Clerical Life</em> (1857-58), <em>Adam Bede</em> (1859), <em>The Mill on the Floss</em> (1860), <em>Silas Marner</em> (1861), <em>Felix Holt, The Radical</em> (1866), and <em>Middlemarch</em> (1871-72). …”