Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial LifeGeorge Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871-72) is one of the classic novels of English literature and was admired by Virginia Woolf as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.” The complex main plot and many subplots revolve around Dorothea Brooke, an ardent young woman, and her relationship to three men: Casaubon, a clergyman and scholar twice her age; Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor who shares Dorothea’s enthusiasm for reform but whose flaws compromise his ambitions; and Will Ladislaw, a young man of mysterious origins, romantic temperament, and artistic inclinations. A female Bildungsroman and a study of character and society in the realistic mode pioneered by Balzac, Middlemarch is also an historical novel that offers a panorama of English society in an era of social reform and political agitation. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of contextual materials, including contemporary reviews of the novel, other writings by George Eliot (essays, reviews, and criticism), and historical documents pertaining to medical reform, religious freedom, and the advent of the railroads. |
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... writer of original fiction . This journey , more than any other episode in her life , was decisive in shaping her destiny . Weimar offered Eliot the chance to come into close proximity with the greatest cultural figures of the day , to ...
... writer . But back home again in London , following the publication of Scenes of Clerical Life ( 1858 ) , Eliot instantly became the more famous of the two . And yet , by incorporating Lewes's Christian name into her pseudonym , Eliot ...
... writing is simply a set of experiments in life . " 2 George Eliot 1 " Prelude , " 31 . 2 Lettter to Dr. Joseph Frank Payne , 25 January 1876 , Selections from George Eliot's Letters , ed . Gordon S. Maight ( New Haven and London : Yale ...
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