It was George Eliot\'s ambition to create a world and to portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising fictional provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830.
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In her introduction, Ashton discusses themes of social change in Middlemarch , and examines the novel as an imaginative embodiment of Eliot\'s humanist beliefs.
This Penguin Classics edition uses the second edition of 1874 and features an introduction and notes by Eliot-biographer Rosemary Ashton.
Middlemarch displays George Eliot\'s clear-eyed yet humane understanding of characters caught up in the mysterious unfolding of self-knowledge.
Edward Casaubon, and the sinister John Raffles, who threatens to expose the hidden past of one of the town\'s elite.
The appearance of two outsiders further disrupts the town\'s equilibrium--Will Ladislaw, the spirited nephew of Dorothea\'s husband, the Rev.
Lydgate; the spendthrift Fred Vincy; and the steadfast Mary Garth.
The quiet drama of ordinary lives and flawed choices are played out in the complexly portrayed central characters of the novel--the idealistic Dorothea Brooke; the ambitious Dr.
The proposed Reform Bill promises political change; the building of railroads alters both the physical and cultural landscape; new scientific approaches to medicine incite public division; and scandal lurks behind respectability.
George Eliot\'s Victorian masterpiece: a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants George Eliot\'s novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life , explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes.
It was George Eliot\'s ambition to create a world and to portray a whole community--tradespeople, middle classes, country gentry--in the rising fictional provincial town of Middlemarch, circa 1830
