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Overview'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 naïve 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: George Eliot , David Carroll (Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster) , David Russell (Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow, University of Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Edition: 3rd Revised edition Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 19.60cm Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9780198815518ISBN 10: 0198815514 Pages: 864 Publication Date: 11 April 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews10 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 """10 years after reading the novel, I am still finding new things to admire."" -- Times Higher Education Supplement" Author InformationDavid Carroll is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, edited the Clarendon edition of Middlemarch (1986). As well as publishing many articles on George Eliot's fiction, he has written Chinua Achebe (1980) and other essays on African literature. He is joint General Editor of the Longman Literature in English Series.David Russell is Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2017). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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