An intertextual study of George Eliot and Schiller argues that the novels demonstrate a conflict between Eliot's conscious allegiance to realism and a narrative impulse towards the idealism of Schiller's plays. Striking similarities between Dorothea Brooke and Schiller's Joan of Arc, as between Felix Holt, Wilhelm Tell and Schiller's Marquis Posa in Don Carlos, are noted.
An intertextual study of George Eliot and Schiller, whom she greatly admired, is offered in this article. It argues that the ...