ENG324Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Social Anthropology, Raymond Williams, Corn Laws
Document Summary
She did, however, write on historic based novel: a master of the realist mode, full title: A natural history of german life : review of 2 books by german social historian wilhem heinrich von riehl. The books are pre-darwin but they belong to the premium of beliefs that he based his works on. So many books written on george eliot and science (based on her books: study of language, customs, beliefs and festivals. Anthropology wasn"t a big field until much later in the century. It would be more considered a social anthropology. Interested in showing how people lived, their celebrations (which is described in great deal): eliot criticizes unrealistic and idyllic artistic representations of the people she calls the masses . It"s too idealized since it doesn"t portray them as they actually are. It makes them seem like more of a flat character and not rounded which is how regular class people (humans) are.
