Silas Marner
by George Eliot

Silas Marner: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

Silas Marner is one of George Eliot's many Realist novels. It centers itself around describing and portraying the elements of life in England in the early 1800s in an accurate way. Eliot is considered a master of this genre, and was one of the most important literary figures of the Victorian period largely because of her extensive influence on it. As a Realist, Eliot focuses deeply on small instances of conversation and on exhaustive and detailed description of the environment and its inhabitants. These give the reader a historically accurate and comprehensive vision of the world of Silas Marner.