George Eliot lived in the early Victorian age which witnessed a transformation in the social structure because of the Industrial Revolution. In Middlemarch, she analyzes the emergence of the capitalist paradigm, and the ...

Mary Shelley lived in an age that witnessed a great paradigmatic change: the shift from the mercantilist to the capitalist world order. In Frankenstein, she unveils the social and psychological impacts of the new system ...

This thesis analyzes George Eliot’s Middlemarch, sets it firmly within the social structures of early 19th century Britain. Socially-imposed identity, strict moral and conventional expectations, the class system, and social ...

Daniel Defoe’s The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York (1719), depicts the turbulent period of economic Transition in Britain from the mercantilist to the capitalist order. Unintentionally, ...

Religion represents a profound influence on George Eliot‟s fiction, and on her life and career as a whole. Her attitude developed from a rigidly evangelical perspective during her youth towards an open-minded liberalism ...