Author Description

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 But Morally-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.