TY - BOOK AU - Roberts,Adam TI - Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors SN - 9781800641600 PY - 2021/// CY - Cambridge, UK PB - Open Book Publishers KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6551438 ER -