cacian
03-29-2012, 05:46 AM
By George Eliot.
I have often wondered about this story because much of it reminded me so much of Charles Dickens it felt almost as if it was written by him.
Middlemarch a English novel written by a woman writer under the pseudonym of George Eliot, a man's name. It takes place in a fictional setting of Middland England, rural or provencial life.
The story sets out to depict a very modern outlook on life with topics such as women status ,marriage divorce politics idealism and education, a melting pot of societies's highs and lows not without its consequential dellusional state of mind and bitter ends.
Quote:
"Middlemarch" has a double meaning. One is Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita. The other is to do with the central English provincial counties in which it takes place - a "march" or "marchland" in English is a border between counties.
It is not a romantic novel as such but has its passionate moments.
It certainly not a Jane Austen type of frustrated conditional/unconditional love or, a sacrificial fervent devoted Jayne Eyre type either, that leads to a climatic happy ending.
Quote:
It is not a romantic novel, though it is a very passionate one. It is anti-romantic. It does not lead from frustrated love to fulfilled love to climactic marriage. It begins with the mistaken marriage choices of its "heroine" and "hero" and shows the inexorable workings of their coming to terms with their folly.
Here is a link I find by The Guardian entitled
Wit and Wisdom
and well worth a read.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007...iction.asbyatt
What are your views about this book and do you have a favourite line or scene or character from it?
I have often wondered about this story because much of it reminded me so much of Charles Dickens it felt almost as if it was written by him.
Middlemarch a English novel written by a woman writer under the pseudonym of George Eliot, a man's name. It takes place in a fictional setting of Middland England, rural or provencial life.
The story sets out to depict a very modern outlook on life with topics such as women status ,marriage divorce politics idealism and education, a melting pot of societies's highs and lows not without its consequential dellusional state of mind and bitter ends.
Quote:
"Middlemarch" has a double meaning. One is Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita. The other is to do with the central English provincial counties in which it takes place - a "march" or "marchland" in English is a border between counties.
It is not a romantic novel as such but has its passionate moments.
It certainly not a Jane Austen type of frustrated conditional/unconditional love or, a sacrificial fervent devoted Jayne Eyre type either, that leads to a climatic happy ending.
Quote:
It is not a romantic novel, though it is a very passionate one. It is anti-romantic. It does not lead from frustrated love to fulfilled love to climactic marriage. It begins with the mistaken marriage choices of its "heroine" and "hero" and shows the inexorable workings of their coming to terms with their folly.
Here is a link I find by The Guardian entitled
Wit and Wisdom
and well worth a read.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007...iction.asbyatt
What are your views about this book and do you have a favourite line or scene or character from it?