Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought
were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in
Middlemarch (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept
of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to
confront the scepticism that was taking over the age.
In a panoramic sweep of English life during thr years leading up to
the First Reform Bill of 1832, Eliot explores nearly every subject
of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self,
society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the
most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke,
the heroine, idealistic but näive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and
egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius
Lydgate, the brilliant but
morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and
Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming
courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's
rich comic vein.
Felicia Bonaparte has provided a new Introduction for this updated
edition, the text of which is taken from David Carroll's
Clarendon Middlemarch (1986), the first critical edition.
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10 years after reading the novel, I am still finding new things to admire. Times Higher Education Supplement
10 years after reading the novel, I am still finding new things to admire. Times Higher Education Supplement
George Eliot, eig. Mary Ann Evans, wurde 1819 in Arbury Farm/Warwickshire geboren und starb 1880 in London. Die Autorin ist eine der bedeutendsten Vertreterinnen des psychologisch-sozialen Romans.
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