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JiffyNotes: Silas Marner: Summary: Historical Context Silas Marner was published in 1861, at a kind of mid-point in Eliot's career. Her longer, more well-known and epic works like Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda lay ahead of her. And Marner is similar in style to her earlier novels like Adam Bede and The Mill on the Floss in that they all partake of a kind of "rustic realism" that Eliot had perfected. This kind of realism ran counter to prevailing pastoral styles for Eliot, although it appeared to have much in common with them. The pastoral is a genre in which the country-oriented life of the working classes is represented in either poetry or prose, and was popularized throughout the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century by poets like William Wordsworth and Thomas Gray. But Eliot wanted her writing to stand in opposition to these sorts of pastoralism, which she saw as romanticizing the peasantry -- showing scenes of shepherds frolicking bucolically alongside their herds, or of permanently giddy villagers. She wanted, instead, to represent the working classes more realistically -- to show them in all their "'coarse'" habits, she said. She didn't, that is, want to smooth over the representations of such people.
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