Raveloe

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Raveloe is a fictional rural English village in George Eliot’s novel "Silas Marner," characterized by its close-knit, tradition-bound community and pastoral setting.

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Raveloe canonical 10

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional location
fictional village
setting in literature
appearsIn Silas Marner
country England
createdBy George Eliot
genreOfWorkContext Victorian novel
hasCharacteristic agricultural surroundings
close-knit community
insular outlook
pastoral setting
religious observance
social conservatism
suspicious of outsiders
tradition-bound society
hasCommunityType rural village community
hasCulturalPractice church attendance
traditional rural festivals
village gatherings at the inn
hasEconomicActivity farming
weaving
hasMoralLandscape emphasis on communal judgment
importance of reputation
hasNarrativeFunction contrast to industrial and urban life
primary setting of Silas Marner
hasSocialSpace The Rainbow Inn
hasSocialStructure landed gentry
rural laborers
tenant farmers
hasThemeAssociation community and isolation
religion and morality
social class and hierarchy
tradition versus change
hasTransportationContext relatively isolated from major roads
inhabitant Dolly Winthrop
Dunstan Cass
Godfrey Cass
Nancy Lammeter
Silas Marner
Squire Cass
languageOfCommunity English
literarySignificance example of idealized rural English village in Victorian fiction
locatedInWork Silas Marner
timePeriodSetting early 19th century
pre-industrial rural England

Referenced by (10)

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Silas Marner setting Raveloe
Eppie raisedIn Raveloe
Godfrey Cass residence Raveloe
Nancy Lammeter residesIn Raveloe
Godfrey Cass is revealed as Eppie's biological father residesIn Raveloe
subject surface form: Godfrey Cass
Dolly Winthrop residence Raveloe