Middlemarch : Epigraphs and Mirrors.

By: Roberts, AdamMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK : Open Book Publishers, 2021Copyright date: �2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (162 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781800641600Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: MiddlemarchOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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