George Eliot: Middlemarch (Landmarks of World Literature)

Karen Chase
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Reprint, 9/12/1991
EAN 9780521359153, ISBN10: 0521359155

Paperback, 120 pages, 20.3 x 12.7 x 0.7 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

A comprehensive introduction to Middlemarch, offering both general information and an original interpretation. It pays considerable attention to the intellectual and social context surrounding Middlemarch, and situates the work within nineteenth-century traditions of the novel in England and Europe. Karen Chase gives particular emphasis to the Woman Question in Middlemarch.

1. The context of the novel
2. The method of Middlemarch
3. Middlemarch and the art of living well
4. Gender and generation
5. The afterlife of a masterpiece.