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Middlemarch
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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Middlemarch is ideal for readers interested in classic English literature, social history, and intricate character-driven fiction that offers enduring insights into human nature and society.
Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch a concept of life and society free of the past's dogma yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age.
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.
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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 naรฏve 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.
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"10 years after reading the novel, I am still finding new things to admire." โ Times Higher Education Supplement
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780198815518
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 April 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Contributors:
- Edited by David Carroll
- Introduction by David Russell
Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 38.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 577g
Pages: 864
About the Author
Edited byย David Carroll , Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, andย David Russell , Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow, University of Oxford. David Carroll is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, edited the Clarendon edition ofย Middlemarch (1986). As well as publishing many articles on George Eliot's fiction, he has writtenย Chinua Achebe (1980) and other essays on African literature. He is joint General Editor of theย Longman Literature in English Series. David Russell is Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the author ofย Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2017).
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