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This second edition of 'The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot' includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot's life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and original insig...

A critical study of George Eliot's novel "Middlemarch", in which the complexities of human beings and the struggle between egoism and altruism are examined. It explores the various themes and characters to determine Eliot's intention in the light of the intellectual climate of the time.

George Eliot was one of the greatest 19th century English novelists. With 'Middlemarch', 'Mill on the Floss', 'Silas Marner' and many other books, she turned the novel away from the narrow path of Dickens and Thackeray into the direction of serious criticism of life and probing analysis of ...

This is an analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the first Reform Bill of 1832. It is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and includes a host of characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid 1...

In Middlemarch, George Eliot fashions a concept of life and society free of the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism of the age. This new critical edition features an introduction by Felicia Bonaparte.

Middlemarch is George Eliot's social commentary on changing manners and the place of women in 19th century England. Margaret Harris provides notes and a chronology of Eliot's life and times.