Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bentley, Colene

Titel

Democratic Citizenship In Felix Holt

Ist Teil von

• Nineteenth-century contexts, 2002, Vol.24 (3), p.271-289

Ort / Verlag

Taylor & Francis Group

Erscheinungsjahr

2002

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Discusses how George Eliot examines the concept of democratic citizenship as a formal problem in "Felix Holt". Embedding the twin values of personal sovereignty and communal membership in structures of representation was a challenge for political thinkers and novelists alike during England's period of progressive franchise reform. Outlines the ways in which Eliot used fictional representation to engage with theories of democratic citizenship advanced by Schiller, Arnold and Mill. (Quotes from original text)