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We all know what dramatic irony is and can identify its presence in a range of texts. It is the kind of critical term that is easy to recognize but that seems to do no work: it doesn’t lead to further insights or serve as a prompt to theorizing, so most critics are content merely with naming it and moving on. But this is a mistake. By exploring the subtle ways that George Eliot uses this device in Silas Marner, I argue that dramatic irony opens up important philosophical questions around knowledge, skepticism, aesthetics, and ethics.

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Rethinking Dramatic Irony with George Eliot’s Silas Marner

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    2025年

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  • Lucas Thompson

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We all know what dramatic irony is and can identify its presence in a range of texts. It is the kind of critical term that is easy to recognize but that seems to do no work: it doesn’t lead to further insights or serve as a prompt to theorizing, so most critics are content merely with naming it and moving on. But this is a mistake. By exploring the subtle ways that George Eliot uses this device in Silas Marner, I argue that dramatic irony opens up important philosophical questions around knowledge, skepticism, aesthetics, and ethics.