178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1984. Although Middlemarch was extravagantly praised by Henry James, Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf, it is only in the last few decades that the novel has been widely recognised as George Eliot’s finest work, one of the greatest English novels, and one of the classic texts of nineteenth-century fiction. The intellectual, religious and aesthetic background to... Read more

Author’s Preface;  1. Preliminary  2. Art, Ideas, Aesthetics  3. A Study of Provincial Life  4. The Narrator  5. Character and Characterisation  6. Dorothea  7. The Parts and the Whole  8. Critical History;  Notes;  Bibliography;  Index

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