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Title:
Middlemarch
Genre:
Drama
History
Literature
Romance
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Series:
Penguin English Library
Binding:
Paperback
Narrative:
Third Person
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
922
Number of Chapters:
87
Synopsis:
Dorothea Brooke can find no acceptable outlet for her talents or energy and few who share her ideals.
As an upper middle-class woman in Victorian England she can’t learn Greek or Latin simply for herself; she certainly can’t become an architect or have a career; and thus, Dorothea finds herself ”Saint Theresa of nothing.”
Believing she will be happy and fulfilled as ”the lampholder” for his great scholarly work, she marries the self-centered intellectual Casaubon, twenty-seven years her senior.
Dorothea is not the only character caught by the expectations of British society in this huge, sprawling book.
Middlemarch stands above its large and varied fictional community, picking up and examining characters like a jeweler observing stones.
There is Lydgate, a struggling young doctor in love with the beautiful but unsuitable Rosamond Vincy; Rosamond’s gambling brother Fred and his love, the plain-speaking Mary Garth; Will Ladislaw, Casaubon’s attractive cousin, and the ever-curious Mrs. Cadwallader.
The characters mingle and interact, bowing and turning in an intricate dance of social expectations and desires.
Through them George Eliot creates a full, textured picture of life in provincial nineteenth-century England.
ABOUT ELIOT:
George Eliot was born Mary Ann (Marian) Evans in 1819. After her mother died in 1836, Marian was her father’s housekeeper, educating herself in her spare time.
After moving to Coventry in 1841 she met progressive intellectuals and became managing editor of the Westminster Review in 1851.
She lost her Christian faith and was alienated from her family, moving to London where she met the separated George Henry Lewes.
They lived together until his death in 1878. During those years she wrote the fiction, journalism and philosophy she is remembered for under the pseudonym of George Eliot.
As an upper middle-class woman in Victorian England she can’t learn Greek or Latin simply for herself; she certainly can’t become an architect or have a career; and thus, Dorothea finds herself ”Saint Theresa of nothing.”
Believing she will be happy and fulfilled as ”the lampholder” for his great scholarly work, she marries the self-centered intellectual Casaubon, twenty-seven years her senior.
Dorothea is not the only character caught by the expectations of British society in this huge, sprawling book.
Middlemarch stands above its large and varied fictional community, picking up and examining characters like a jeweler observing stones.
There is Lydgate, a struggling young doctor in love with the beautiful but unsuitable Rosamond Vincy; Rosamond’s gambling brother Fred and his love, the plain-speaking Mary Garth; Will Ladislaw, Casaubon’s attractive cousin, and the ever-curious Mrs. Cadwallader.
The characters mingle and interact, bowing and turning in an intricate dance of social expectations and desires.
Through them George Eliot creates a full, textured picture of life in provincial nineteenth-century England.
ABOUT ELIOT:
George Eliot was born Mary Ann (Marian) Evans in 1819. After her mother died in 1836, Marian was her father’s housekeeper, educating herself in her spare time.
After moving to Coventry in 1841 she met progressive intellectuals and became managing editor of the Westminster Review in 1851.
She lost her Christian faith and was alienated from her family, moving to London where she met the separated George Henry Lewes.
They lived together until his death in 1878. During those years she wrote the fiction, journalism and philosophy she is remembered for under the pseudonym of George Eliot.
Author:
George Eliot
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Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Barcode:
9780141199795
Publication Date:
2012-03-01
Language:
English
Date Added:
2018-06-26 16:55:11
