Description: This title was first published in 2003. Deborah Guth here explores the substantial evidence of the importance of the playwright and philosopher's thought to Eliot's novelistic art. Guth demonstrates the relationship of Schiller's work to Eliot's plotting of moral vision, the tensions in her work between realism and idealism, and her aesthetics. She contends that the immense continental underpinnings of Eliot's writing should lead us to re-situate her beyond national boundaries, and view her as a major European, as well as English, writer.
Review Quotes: '... reading Eliot through Schiller with the help of this study will prove a welcome antidote to seeing her work purely in the English context.' Journal of European Studies