Scenes of Clerical Life / Adam Bede

Title

Scenes of Clerical Life / Adam Bede

Description

  • "Every development of prose fiction has a certain special, though not always easily defined, relation to the age of its production. As its generally therefore, is to depict the social life and manners of the age, so from the age it receives its tone and color, it mirrors its conventional proprieties, and accepts its moral standard."

Creator

Unknown

Source

[Unknown]. "Scenes of Clerical Life / Adam Bede." British Controversialist and Literary Magazine, 1859, pp. 268-73.

Publisher

George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org

Date

1859

Citation

Unknown, Scenes of Clerical Life / Adam Bede, Contemporaries on George Eliot's Works, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/52290