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Eliot's Middlemarch is an argument about the limits of individualism (especially as it relates to women).
Literary Study 2009
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The full text of Middlemarch is available for free on Project Gutenberg.
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Middlemarch is a brilliant portrait of both sexes, never more so than in famous coda: “… the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to those who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
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The narrative voice that tells Middlemarch is just as much a made-up character as Dorothea or Mr. Casaubon.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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The action in Middlemarch unfolds against the backdrop of two great social upheavals: the coming of the Industrial Revolution to England and enactment of Reform Bill of 1832 that made Parliament more representative of ordinary people.
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The narrative voice that tells Middlemarch is just as much a made-up character as Dorothea or Mr. Casaubon.
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This morning, at an unbearable point in Middlemarch -- Dorothea is, I think, about to make a Very Big Mistake -- I switched off my iPod and turned my attention to what my fellow Orange Line commuters were reading.
Librarian superpowers Roger Sutton 2008
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This morning, at an unbearable point in Middlemarch -- Dorothea is, I think, about to make a Very Big Mistake -- I switched off my iPod and turned my attention to what my fellow Orange Line commuters were reading.
Archive 2008-04-01 Roger Sutton 2008
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Middlemarch is making me feel a little daunted at reading pretty much anything else (for fun).
Hard books Roger Sutton 2008
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“What Middlemarch is to the English novel this biography is to George Eliot,” a critic for the New York Times wrote when this book appeared in 1968.
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