Middlemarch: A Study of English Provincial Life (Clarendon Edition of the Novels of George Eliot) - Hardcover

Eliot, George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198125585 ISBN 13: 9780198125587

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 1986

Synopsis

Often considered George Eliot's finest novel, Middlemarch is a masterpiece of literary realism. This is the first edition of the novel to be published with full critical apparatus since it appeared in 1871-2. It records all the variants in the main edition as well as many of the deletions in the manuscript. The introduction traces the history of composition, publication, and revision.

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Review

'David Carroll has overcome with great success the problems besetting a modern editor of the novel.' Rosemary Ashton, Review of English Studies

From the Publisher

In Middlemarch George Eliot gives us a portrait of provincial life in Victorian England that has never been surpassed.

Wit, irony, pathos and brilliant insight into human nature colour every strand of plot and every beautifully drawn character. Foremost among these and Dorothea Booke, passionate to use her spirit and talent in a wider world than that typically afforded to women in the 1830s; Casuabon, the dry, jealous academic; Doctor Lydgate, who dreams of pioneering research in medical science; spoilt, pretty Rosamond Vincy who sees as 'a man whom it would be delightful to enslave'.

The novel centres on the marriages of Dorothea and of Lydgate, and on the web of relationships that connects us to each other. While eagerly awaiting the next part of the Middlemarch serial in 1872, the Spectator critic declared that 'Middlemarch bids more than fair to be one of the great books of the world'.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198125585
• ISBN 13: 9780198125587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 912
• Editor: Carroll David