Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life - Brossura

Eliot, George; Maertz, Gregory

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ISBN 10: 1551112337 ISBN 13: 9781551112336

Casa editrice: Broadview Pr, 2004

Riassunto

George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871-72) is one of the classic novels of English literature and was admired by Virginia Woolf as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.” The complex main plot and many subplots revolve around Dorothea Brooke, an ardent young woman, and her relationship to three men: Casaubon, a clergyman and scholar twice her age; Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor who shares Dorothea’s enthusiasm for reform but whose flaws compromise his ambitions; and Will Ladislaw, a young man of mysterious origins, romantic temperament, and artistic inclinations. A female Bildungsroman and a study of character and society in the realistic mode pioneered by Balzac, Middlemarch is also an historical novel that offers a panorama of English society in an era of social reform and political agitation.

This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of contextual materials, including contemporary reviews of the novel, other writings by George Eliot (essays, reviews, and criticism), and historical documents pertaining to medical reform, religious freedom, and the advent of the railroads.

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L'autore

Gregory Maertz is an Associate Professor of English at Saint John’s University in New York City. He is the editor of Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age (SUNY Press, 1998).

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Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Broadview Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1551112337
• ISBN 13: 9781551112336
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 900