Middlemarch
 Title page, first ed., Vol. 1, William Blackwood and Sons, 1871 (First volume of eight) | |
| Author | George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) |
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| Working title | Miss Brooke |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Set in | English Midlands and briefly Rome, September 1829 — May 1832 |
| Published | 1871–2 |
| Publisher | William Blackwood and Sons |
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| 823.8 | |
| Preceded by | Felix Holt, the Radical (1866) |
| Followed by | Daniel Deronda (1874–6) |
| Text | Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life at Wikisource |
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is the best-known book written by English author George Eliot. It was first published in eight volumes during 1871–72. The novel is set in the fictional Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–32.[1]
Further reading[change | change source]
- Adam, Ian, ed. (1975). This Particular Web: essays on Middlemarch. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
- Bloom, Harold, ed. (2009). George Eliot. Philadelphia, PA: Chelsea. ISBN 9781438116006.
- Carroll, David, ed. (1971). George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge & K Paul. ISBN 0-7100-6936-7.
- Chase, Karen, ed. (2006). Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Daiches, David (1963). George Eliot: Middlemarch. London: Arnold.
- Dentith, Simon (1986). George Eliot. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press. ISBN 0-7108-0588-8.
- Garrett, Peter K (1980). The Victorian Multiplot Novel: Studies in Dialogical Form. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-02403-7.
- Graver, Suzanne (1984). George Eliot and Community: A Study in Social Theory and Fictional Form. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-04802-4.
- Harvey, W. J. (1961). The Art of George Eliot. London: Chatto & Windus.
- Harvey, W. J. (1967). "Criticism of the Novel: Contemporary Reception". In Hardy, Barbara Nathan. Middlemarch: Critical Approaches to the Novel (2013 ed.). London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781472536143.
- Kettle, Arnold (1951). An Introduction to the English Novel, Volume I: To George Eliot. London: Hutchinson.
- Neale, Catherine (1989). George Eliot, Middlemarch. London: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-077173-5.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature, ed. Marion Wynne–Davies. New York: Prentice Hall, 1990, p. 719. Carolyn Steedman, "Going to Middlemarch: History and the Novel", Michigan Quarterly Review XL, no. 3 (Summer 2001). Retrieved 13 April 2013
Other websites[change | change source]
Wikisource has original writing related to this article:
- Manuscript of Middlemarch at the British Library
- Middlemarch on the British Library's Discovering Literature website
- Middlemarch at Goodreads
- {{{name}}} at Project Gutenberg
- Middlemarch at Victorian Web
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