Elizabeth Holtze (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: “Aristotle and George Eliot: Hamartia in Adam Bede,” in Hamartia: The Concept of Error in the Western Tradition, edited by Donald V. Stump, James A. Arieti, Lloyd Gerson, and Eleonore Stump, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1983, pp. 267-80.
[In the following essay, Holtze examines Aristotelian tragic influences in Adam Bede and the errors or “hamartia” committed by Adam, Arthur, and Hetty.]
In 1855 George Eliot wrote a review entitled “The Morality of Wilhelm Meister” in...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2001 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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