Eliot George - Middlemarch - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: 'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts The greatest 'state of the nation novel in English Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town George Eliot addresses gender relations and class self - knowledge and self - delusion community and individualism. Eliot follows the fortunes of the town's central characters as they find lose and rediscover ideals and vocations in the world. Through its psychologically rich portraits the novel contains some of the great characters of literature including the idealistic but na ve Dorothea Brooke beautiful and egotistical Rosamund Vincy the dry scholar Edward Casaubon the wise and grounded Mary Garth and the brilliant but proud Dr Lydgate. In its whole view of a society the novel offers enduring insight into the pains and pleasures of life with others and explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life:. art religion science politics self society and above all human relationships. This edition uses the definitive Clarendon text.
Title: Middlemarch
Author(s): Eliot George, David (Emeritus Professor Of English Literature At The University Of Lancaster) Carroll
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198815518
Pages: 864 Pages
Publication Date: 7/1/2019
Series: Oxford World's Classics
Category: Classic Fiction