Adam Bede (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: George Eliot
- First Published: 1859
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1799
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism
- Subjects: Love or romance, Murder or homicide, Nineteenth century, Social issues, Rural or country life, Obsession, Pregnancy, Ministry or ministers, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Illegitimacy, Ethics, Carpentry or carpenters, Preaching, Fate or fatalism, Romanticism
- Locales: England
Places Discussed
Hayslope in the county of Loamshire Midlands village in a fictional county of where Adam Bede, a skilled carpenter, works for Jonathan Burge. Scenes alternate between the indoors (the workshop, the Bede home, the rectory, the Hall farm) and the outdoors (the green, the woods, the churchyard, the orchard and garden) picturing the full range of a community. The novel opens in the village carpentry workshop, where Adam praises industrious creativity, which, he argues, God favors as much as the religious singing, praying, and preaching of the Methodists, a group to...
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