Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch a concept of life and society free of the past\'s dogma yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age..
Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch a concept of life and society free of the past\'s dogma yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age.