Research Catalog

Title

Middlemarch : an authoritative text, backgrounds, reviews and criticism / George Eliot ; edited by Bert G. Hornback.

Author

Eliot, George, 1819-1880

Publication

New York : Norton, c1977.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Hornback, Bert G., 1935-

Description

xiv, 770 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Related essays, journals, and letters accompany the story of the loosely entwined lives of Dorothea Brooke, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family in a middle-class town.

Series Statement

A Norton critical edition

Uniform Title

Norton critical edition

Subject

• Eliot, George, 1819-1880
• Eliot, George, 1819-1880. > Criticism
• Eliot, George 1819-1880
• Eliot, George
• City and town life > Fiction
• Married people > Fiction
• Young women > Fiction
• England > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Domestic fiction
• Didactic fiction
• Bildungsromans
• Fiction
• Love stories

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 769-770.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The text of Middlemarch -- Backgrounds -- Reviews and criticism (Middlemarch / Saturday Review -- Middlemarch / Sidney Colvin -- George Eliot's Middlemarch / Henry James -- George Eliot / Joseph Jacobs -- On Middlemarch / Leslie Stephen -- Character and environment in George Eliot's fiction / Walter Allen -- The moral imagination of George Eliot / Bert G. Hornback -- Women, energy, and Middlemarch / Lee R. Edwards -- Special pleading and art in Middlemarch : the relations between the sexes / Lloyd Fernando -- History by indirection : the era of reform in Middlemarch / Jerome Beaty -- Fiction and theh "matrix of analogy" / Mark Schorer -- The language of the novel / Hilda M. Hulme -- George Eliot : through the looking glass / Edwin J. Kenney, Jr. -- Dorothea's husbands / Richard Ellmann.

ISBN

• 0393092100 (pbk.)
• 0393044300

LCCN

^^^76022805^

OCLC

• 3003855
• SCSB-12829284

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library