Middlemarch : Epigraphs and Mirrors.
Roberts, Adam.
Middlemarch : Epigraphs and Mirrors. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (162 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Eliot's Double Mirror -- 2. Sappho's Apple -- 3. Lydgate Winces: Character and Realism -- 4. Hypocrisy and the Judgment of Men -- 5. Ladislaw -- 6. Myth, Middlemarch and the Mill: Out in Mid-Sea -- 7. Epigraphy: Beginnings and Ends -- Postscript: The Flute inside the Bell -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon's obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot's use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that.
9781800641600
Electronic books.
Middlemarch : Epigraphs and Mirrors. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (162 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Eliot's Double Mirror -- 2. Sappho's Apple -- 3. Lydgate Winces: Character and Realism -- 4. Hypocrisy and the Judgment of Men -- 5. Ladislaw -- 6. Myth, Middlemarch and the Mill: Out in Mid-Sea -- 7. Epigraphy: Beginnings and Ends -- Postscript: The Flute inside the Bell -- Bibliography -- List of Illustrations -- Index.
In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon's obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot's use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that.
9781800641600
Electronic books.