Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Jermoła versus George Eliot’s Silas Marner (a Historico-Literary Outline)
Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Jermoła versus George Eliot’s Silas Marner (a Historico-Literary Outline)

Author(s): Aleksandra Budrewicz
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: comparative literature; family; influence; novel; Poland
Summary/Abstract: This is a comparative literary study of plot similarities between Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Jermoła and George Eliot’s Silas Marner with discussion of the possibility that George Eliot was acquainted with the plot of Jermoła before the publication of her own novel. It also examines representation in the novels of patterns in contemporary Polish and British society of family relations and social influence.

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