George Eliot's problem with action.(Critical Essay) From: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2001 Rice University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information) Copyright information

D. H. Lawrence remarked that "it was [George Eliot] who started putting all the action inside." (1) So, for example, in Felix Holt, she shifts the focus from the political revolution implied by the title of the novel to Esther Lyon's "inward revolution." (2) When George Eliot "puts things inside"--exploiting narrative's potential to describe the invisible--willing, judging, desiring, and feeling gain the same ontological status as acting. And yet, properly speaking, action is set apart by its externality. Moreover, it is only by doing that we become just or unjust, as ...

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