Eliot: MiddlemarchA comprehensive introduction to Middlemarch, offering both general information and an original interpretation. It pays considerable attention to the intellectual and social context surrounding Middlemarch, and situates the work within nineteenth-century traditions of the novel in England and Europe. Karen Chase gives particular emphasis to the Woman Question in Middlemarch. |
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Contents
The context of the novel | 1 |
Religion and science | 3 |
The powers of the past | 7 |
The Woman Question | 10 |
1830 and the novel as history | 15 |
The method of Middlemarch | 22 |
The beckoning of the ideal | 28 |
Plots and multiplots | 31 |
Middlemarch and the art of living well | 45 |
Public opinion public crime | 48 |
Time and social hope | 51 |
Gender and generation | 61 |
Metamorphosis | 67 |
Life in time | 72 |
Love in time | 77 |
The afterlife of a masterpiece | 86 |
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