Middlemarch 2e (NCE): A Norton Critical Edition: 0 (Norton Critical Editions)

by George Eliot (Author), George Eliot (Author), George Eliot (Author), Bert G Hornback (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.30

  For this new edition, the text has been reset in a larger typeface for ease of reading. Backgrounds helps readers understand Eliot's ideas on life and art with generous selections from her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works. Contemporary Reviews records the impressions of Sidney Colvin, Henry James, Joseph Jacobs, and Leslie Stephen. Recent Criticism collects eleven essays-seven of them new to this edition-which center on the novel's major themes. Contributors include Mark Schorer, Jerome Beaty, Cherry Wilhelm, Robert Heilman, Lee R. Edwards, Alan Mintz, T. R. Wright, Matthew Rich, Alan Shelston, and Claudia Moscovici. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

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  Paperback
  1988

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  Written in 1871-2 and subtitled A study of provincial life , this novel depicts a Midlands community in the years immediately before the First Reform Bill of 1832. The scope of the novel goes beyond this description, ranging from psychological analysis to the larger movements of European culture and history. In addition the novel dramatizes and explores some of the myths of Victorian literature within the context of English provincial life at a crucial historical moment.

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  Paperback
  1992

  $40.20

  Middlemarch, by common consent one of the most important novels in English, has always stimulated outstanding criticism. Over the past twenty years or so, it has also become a favourite novel for consideration by critics wishing to develop and explore new ways of looking at the novel form. The excitement and originality of such criticism is reflected fully in this volume, which presents a whole range of current ways of looking at Middlemarch. The collection as a whole, along with a clear introduction and a guide to Further Reading, also provides a fascinating sense of how criticism of the novel is a continuing debate, as critics take up and dispute received views - in the process, offering us an endlessly renewed and fresh sense of Middlemarch. The collection as a whole, along with a clear introduction and a guide to Further Reading, also provides a fascinating sense of how criticism of the novel is a continuing debate, as critics take up and dispute received views - in the process, offering us an endlessly renewed and fresh sense of Middlemarch.