Eliot's Middlemarch

Informationen zum Autor Josie Billington is Professor in English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has edited and published extensively on Victorian women's fiction and poetry including 21st Century Oxford Authors: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life , Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters , and Margaret Oliphant's The Ladies Lindores . She has also led multiple inter-disciplinary studies on the value of literary reading for health. Her publications in this field include Is Literature Healthy? (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Reading and Mental Health (Palgrave, 2019). Zusammenfassung Provides an introduction to the context, language, themes, criticism and afterlife of the novel "Middlemarch". This guide presents an account of its critical reception. It also discusses the cultural afterlife including film and TV adaptations. It includes points for discussion and suggestions for further study. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Contexts 2. Language, Style and Form 3. Reading Middlemarch4. Critical Reception and Publishing History 5. Adaptation, interpretation and influence 6. Guide to Further Reading Index

Product details

• Authors: Josie Billington
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2008
• EAN: 9780826495518
• ISBN: 978-0-8264-9551-8
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Continuum Reader's Guides (Har; Reader's Guides; Continuum Reader's Guides (Har
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900