What does /lit/ think of George Eliot?

>>24520901 (OP)
I have The Lifted Veil and Middlemarch but haven't read them yet. Will probably read them in October when I'm free.

soporifique
everything i hate about the british novel

>>24520906
what do you love about the british novel?

Disclaimer, I've only read Daniel Deronda. I found it extremely intelligent and in some ways poetic genius, but also occasionally cartoonish, especially the depiction of the Jews being cute but caricatured. However I found the relationships depicted very realistic, even if the characters could be less so. It's cool that she has sentences that are difficult and rewarding because of their content and not just because of stylistic misdirection, not many authors can say the same. Probably worth it to read at least one of her works.

>>24520901 (OP)
he was the jealous brother of T.S.

>>24520901 (OP)
She's all right, but a bit stolid for my taste.

Middlemarch is the one Victorian novel you can put up next to the greats of world literature, your Don Quixotes, your Hamlets and so on, and not suffer in comparison.
Nothing else she did quite reaches that level. Romola needed a better heroine, Daniel Deronda could have done without the Daniel Deronda sections. Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner too sentimental