1. [PDF] Addiction and Recovery in Silas Marner
May 7, 2019 · Silas Marner is not typically recognized by critics as a novel about addiction because Silas does not use drugs or alcohol, but I would argue.
2. Review of George Eliot and Intoxication: Dangerous Drugs for ...
Similarly, Silas Marner's compulsive hoarding of money is seen as another form of addiction and brought into the orbit of intoxication. Here the central term ...
Famously insisting to her friend Barbara Bodichon that our 'highest calling' is 'to do without opium', George Eliot is not a writer whom one immediately associates with intoxication, although one of her earliest stories, 'Janet' s Repentance' in Scenes of Cle rical Life, memorably dramatizes the addictive and destructive power of alcohol in the lives of Janet and her husband, the lawyer Dempster. Kathleen McCormack's study casts its net wider than such straightforward representations of drink and drunkenness to explore the tissue of references to, and images of, intoxication, and the drugs that induce it, throughout the fiction. Intoxication, with its range of associations from poisoning to euphoria, becomes the centre of a nexus of issues relating not only to medicine and health, but also to politics, aesthetics, culture, gender, and writing itself. Drawing on Plato's Phaedrus through the mediation of Derrida, Kathleen McCormack shows how George Eliot subtextually or metaphorically associates writing with drugs and exploits the kill-or-cure ambiguity of the Pharmakon metaphor. The principal object of the intended cure is the ailing body of English society itself, and this exploration of intoxication as theme and metaphor engages repeatedly with the Condition of England itself, particularly in Felix Halt, Middlemarch and Daniel Deronda. This study is admirably ambitious in its scope, and it is illuminating to observe how pervasively the allusions to, and metaphors of, intoxic...
3. [PDF] REPORT ON SUBSTANCE USE, ABUSE, AND ADDICTION ...
Richard J. Hodes, M.D.. Director. National Institute on Aging. National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, Maryland. Stephen I. Katz, M.D., Ph.D. Director.
4. [PDF] Opium Use in Victorian England: The Works of Gaskell, Eliot, and Dickens
Silas Marner portrays opium use in a brief sketch of a literal and full blown addiction in the case of Molly Cass. Her husband Godfrey is also arguably an ...
5. Silas Marner by George Eliot - Fanda Classiclit
Apr 6, 2020 · Silas Marner ... Rich and spoiled by his father, Godfrey secretly married a working class opium-addicted girl, Molly, whom he then estranged.
Silas Marner is an old weaver in a rural village called Raveloe. He is a loner; isolated from the world, and eventually became a...
6. Silas Marner - Living Intentionally - WordPress.com
After experiencing abuse from church leaders, Silas escapes to the quiet, ignorant town of Raveloe and becomes obsessed with gold. After misfortune once again ...
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7. Silas Marner - Project Gutenberg
Silas Marner was guilty. He was solemnly suspended from church-membership, and called upon to render up the stolen money.
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8. Susan's Bookshelves: Silas Marner by George Eliot - Susan Elkin
I don't know how many times I've read Silas Marner (1861). I adored it when I first read it at college and it seems to be a life long passion.
I don’t know how many times I’ve read Silas Marner (1861). I adored it when I first read it at college and it seems to be a life long passion. I used to teach it sometimes too and often recommended students to read it as a companion piece to Michelle Magorian’s very popular Goodnight Mr […]
9. Silas Marner: Altruistic Love - Positive Psychology News
Feb 12, 2009 · Silas Marner is an example not only of altruism but also of altruistic love. Because he is selfless enough to take in the beautiful child, he is rewarded with ...
10. McDonagh | Hospitality in Silas Marner and Daniel Deronda | 19
Mar 21, 2020 · The novel's account of the exclusion of Molly, an opium addict, is precise. We are told not only the causes of her dereliction, but also that ...
This article considers two works by Eliot, Silas Marner, her most provincial of novels, and Daniel Deronda, the most cosmopolitan, through the lens of hospitality. Both novels repeatedly stage scenes in which a stranger arrives, and is welcomed or excluded by their hosts. Through these scenes, both novels examine questions regarding refuge, asylum, and settlement, as well as the politics of kinship and the exclusion of women from democratic society. This enables us to read Daniel Deronda as an ‘inquiry’ into the conditions that make the act of colonial settlement seem to be inevitable.
