Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial LifeBroadview Press, 31/08/2004 - 744 páginas George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871-72) is one of the classic novels of English literature and was admired by Virginia Woolf as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.” The complex main plot and many subplots revolve around Dorothea Brooke, an ardent young woman, and her relationship to three men: Casaubon, a clergyman and scholar twice her age; Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor who shares Dorothea’s enthusiasm for reform but whose flaws compromise his ambitions; and Will Ladislaw, a young man of mysterious origins, romantic temperament, and artistic inclinations. A female Bildungsroman and a study of character and society in the realistic mode pioneered by Balzac, Middlemarch is also an historical novel that offers a panorama of English society in an era of social reform and political agitation. This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of contextual materials, including contemporary reviews of the novel, other writings by George Eliot (essays, reviews, and criticism), and historical documents pertaining to medical reform, religious freedom, and the advent of the railroads. |
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... married , invited her to join the Chapman household . The awkwardness of this situation was remedied in 1852 by Mary Ann's budding friendship with the philosopher Herbert Spencer ( 1820-1903 ) . But when Spencer balked at marriage , he ...
... marriage . 1 Charles Norton Eliot , ed . , Correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle ( 1887 ; New York : Cooper Square Publishers , 1970 ) 25-26 . Consistent with the demystified theology of Strauss and Feuerbach , MIDDLEMARCH 13.
... married to other people , Liszt and the Princess Sayn - Wittgenstein openly cohabited . Of German manners and morals ... marriage themes of Middlemarch . ) The slim narrative of Werther and Lotte's fervid but hopeless love made the 25 ...
... marriage , if not heroic martyrdom , was an option Eliot herself never was given . The conclusion of Middlemarch therefore reflects a fantasy of the author , who could not overcome her status as a pariah within English society . Social ...
... marriage is the medium in which a woman acquires legal status , property , and an identity , Dorothea Brooke fantasizes about a marriage that would give her life meaning . She then leaps into marriage with Casaubon because she imagines ...
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The Wicked Sisters: Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord Betsy Erkkila Pré-visualização limitada - 1992 |
Human Behavior and Social Processes: An Interactionist Approach Arnold Marshall Rose Visualização de excertos - 1962 |