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The Connell Guide To George Eliot's Middlemarch (Paperback)
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The Connell Guide To George Eliot's Middlemarch (Paperback)
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When Middlemarch was first published in 1872, it was recognised as
an unprecedented achievement and as marking a new era in the
development of the novel. Edith Simcox, later a close friend and
personal champion of George Eliot, wrote that Middlemarch "marks an
epoch in the history of fiction in so far as its incidents are
taken from the inner life". One of her shrewdest early reviewers,
R.H. Hutton, compared her work to that of her popular contemporary,
Anthony Trollope, saying: "He scours a greater surface of modern
life but rarely or never the emotions which lie concealed behind.
His characters are carved out of the materials of ordinary society;
George Eliot's include many which make ordinary society seem a sort
of satire on the life behind." Today, for fans and detractors
alike, says Josie Billington in her succinct but comprehensive and
highly entertaining guide, Middlemarch is synonymous with what we
mean by the terms "novel", "realism" and "Victorian", and its power
to move modern audiences was demonstrated by the powerful appeal of
the BBC dramatisation in 1994. So what makes this novel great even
for those who feel cheated or saddened by it? For the novel's
passionate admirers, Henry James among them, "that supreme sense of
the vastness and variety of human life... which it belongs only to
the greatest novels to produce" offers its own rich consolations.
Perhaps that sentiment is best summed up by the 20th-century
novelist Stanley Middleton, who said, if we have no God, we do at
least have Middlemarch.
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