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George Eliot’s influential novel Middlemarch is, according to its subtitle, a “study of provincial life.” At its center are the beautiful and inquisitive Dorothea Brooke and the ambitious young doctor Tertius Lydgate, who both have to abandon their idealist views when faced with the reality of daily life. In the novel, Eliot depicts small-town life in the 1830s with its class system, rivalries, and social restrictions in minute detail. She beautifully sketches even minor characters, letting the reader into their thoughts and struggles. Eventually, the individual storylines converge into an overall picture that captures and represents the multifaceted reality of small-town life. Middlemarch is not only the author’s most impressive work, but also a seminal contribution to the 19th-century English novel.

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Date de parution	14 octobre 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798887270500
Langue	English

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Middlemarch
A Study of Provincial Life
George Eliot•First edition: Edinburgh 1871/72

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Take-Aways Middlemarch is George Eliot's most important novel and one of the seminal works of English Realism. Beautiful, inquisitive noblewoman Dorothea Brooke and young, ambitious doctor Tertius Lydgate’s idealistic quests to make a difference in the world cannot survive unhappy marriages and the small-mindedness of Middlemarch society. The story is set in the early 19th century, just a few years before the United Kingdom’s Parliamentary Reform Act of 1832. George Eliot’s real name was Mary Ann Evans. She used a male pseudonym to avoid the prejudices against female writers as well as to disassociate her work from the scandal of her private life. Eliot modeled Middlemarch on the English town of Coventry, where she lived with her father after her mother’s death. The plot is based on the precept that everything in life has consequences and people’s pasts determine their futures. George Eliot’s lifelong partner was the married journalist George Henry Lewes. The two lived together openly – a scandal in 19th century England. Middlemarch started out as two separate stories that Eliot eventually combined. “Middlemarch, in fact, counted on swallowing Lydgate and assimilating him very comfortably.”

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Life in a Small Town
George Eliot’s influential novel Middlemarch is, according to its subtitle, a “study of provincial life.” At its center are the beautiful and inquisitive Dorothea Brooke and the ambitious young doctor Tertius Lydgate, who both have to abandon their idealist views when faced with the reality of daily life. In the novel, Eliot depicts small-town life in the 1830s with its class system, rivalries, and social restrictions in minute detail. She beautifully sketches even minor characters, letting the reader into their thoughts and struggles. Eventually, the individual storylines converge into an overall picture that captures and represents the multifaceted reality of small-town life. Middlemarch is not only the author’s most impressive work, but also a seminal contribution to the 19th-century English novel.

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A Hasty Marriage
Young gentlewoman Dorothea Brooke lives with her sister Celia and her bachelor uncle Mr. Brooke in a house close to Middlemarch. With her keen mind, independent spirit, and puritanical and idealistic attitude, she isn’t to everyone’s taste. Her beauty, however, has made her the target of two men looking for a wife: the jovial and good-natured Sir James Chettam and the pale, erudite clergyman and scholar Edward Casaubon – a man 20 years her senior who spends most of his time researching for a book on the origin of myths. Dorothea is convinced that Chettam is interested in her sister and is almost offended when she is made aware of her misconception. Her childlike and idealistic view of marriage as a “state of higher duty” where the husband is “a sort of father, and could teach you even Hebrew” leads her to accept Casaubon’s offer, whom she idolizes as someone of high intellectual and spiritual insight – both things that she longs for. Her choice surprises and appalls many of her friends and relatives: They consider Casaubon a dry bookworm who is much too old for Dorothea. The two marry quickly and set off on their honeymoon to Rome, where Casaubon is hoping to have time for his research.
A New Doctor in Middlemarch
The young doctor Tertius Lydgate is new to Middlemarch. He has chosen life in a provincial town to escape the intrigues and professional jealousies of London. His profession is his calling as it combines his love for scientific study and discoveries with charity in action. His first taste of the political minefield of small-town Middlemarch comes with the choice of curate for the new hospital: Lydgate finds himself voting, against his conviction, for the candidate that Middlemarch’s banker Bulstrode , who finances the hospital, favors.
Rosamond Vincy , the beautiful but superficial daughter of local businessman Mr. Vincy , has set her sights on Lydgate. She thinks the local men to be beneath her, so the fact that Lydgate is an outsider and the nephew of a baronet is doubly appealing.

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