“Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance in her depiction of Ladislaw--that she fell in love with her own creation in a way that shows a lack of artistic control and is even unseemly, like a hoary movie director whose lens lingers too long on the young flesh of a favored actress. Lord David Cecil calls Ladislaw 'a schoolgirl's dream, and a vulgar one at that,' while Leslie Stephen complained 'Ladislaw is almost obtrusively a favorite with his creator,' and depreciated him as 'an amiable Bohemian.” WritingLiterary CriticismArtistic CreativityFictional CharactersLiterary Creation Book:My Life in Middlemarch Source: My Life in Middlemarch
“It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.” FictionCreationMythHistoricity Of JesusChrist MythChrist Myth TheoryHistoricity Of The GospelsLiterary Creation Author:Paul Louis Couchoud