Middlemarch: a Novel of Reform: 14 (Twayne's masterwork studies) - Softcover

Hornback, Bert G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805780319 ISBN 13: 9780805780314

Publisher: Twayne Publishers Inc.,U.S., 1988

Synopsis

Describes the background of Middlemarch, discusses its themes and characterization, and looks at its critical reception

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Review

"No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative."
--V. S. Pritchett

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: Twayne Publishers Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805780319
• ISBN 13: 9780805780314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 165