Victorian Positivism in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss


Abstract in English

This research aims at studying the Positivist ideas in George Eliot‟s The Mill on the Floss. The introduction talks about the Positivist theory and its founder August Comte. The theory puts science as a basis for any discussion or analysis. Comte thinks that man must have an object or a subject to love and respect, so he asks to substitute the idea of Deity with the idea of humanity as a whole unity including all men and women in all ages who work to serve society and achieve good morals.

References used

Adams, James Eli. A History of Victorian Literature. London: Wiley Blackwell, 2009
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983
Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1987

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