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Middlemarch (3rd edition)
Middlemarch (3rd edition)
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  • The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English. Middlemarch is about living with (rather than defended from) others, about growing up, losing one's ideals - and finding them again
  • A new introduction which accounts for the famous wisdom of the novel, explaining how and why it so profoundly addresses the question of how to live
  • Contains a fully up-to-date bibliography of further reading
  • The definitive Clarendon text

   
'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.

Index: 

Introduction
Suggested Further Reading
A Note on the TEXT

PRELUDE
Book One: Miss Brooke
Book Two: Old and Young
Book Three: Waiting for Death
Book Four: Three Love Problems
Book Five: The Dead Hand
Book Six: The Widow and the Wife
Book Seven: Two Temptations
Book Eight: Sunset and Sunrise
Finale

Notes

About the author: 

George Eliot
Edited by David Carroll, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, and 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 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).

Product details

ISBN : 9780198815518

Author: 
George Eliot; David Carroll
Pages
864 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
130 x 196 mm
Pub date
Apr 2019
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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Middlemarch (3rd edition)

Middlemarch (3rd edition)

Middlemarch (3rd edition)