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Zusatztext 10 years after reading the novel! I am still finding new things to admire. Informationen zum Autor David Carroll is Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster. He edited George Eliot: The Critical Heritage (1971)! and the Clarendon edition of Middlemarch (1986). He is joint General Editor of the Longman Literature in English Series.Felicia Bonaparte is Professor of English at the City University of New York and has written extensively on George Eliot. Among her other publications is the experimental biography The Gypsy-Bachelor of Manchester: The Life of Mrs Gaskell's Demon (1992). Klappentext This panoramic work--considered the finest novel in English by many critics--offers a complex look at English provincial life at a crucial historical moment! and! at the same time! dramatizes and explores some of the most potent myths of Victorian literature. The text of this edition comes from the Clarendon Middlemarch! the first critical edition of the novel. Zusammenfassung Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined! George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel! a concept of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. In a panoramic sweep of English life during thr years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832! Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art! religion! science! politics! self! society! human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke! the heroine! idealistic but näive; Rosamond Vincy! beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon! the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate! the brilliant butmorally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth! childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein. Felicia Bonaparte has provided a new Introduction for this updated edition! the text of which is taken from David Carroll's Clarendon Middlemarch (1986)! the first critical edition. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship! providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features! including expert introductions by leading authorities! helpful notes to clarify the text! up-to-date bibliographies for further study! and much more. ...
