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Billington, J: Connell Guide To George Eliot's Middlemarch: The Connell Guide To ...

Autor Josie Billington
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iun 2012
When Middlemarch was first published in 1872, it was recognised as an unprecedented achievement and as marking a new era in the development of the novel. Edith Simcox, later a close friend and personal champion of George Eliot, wrote that Middlemarch "marks an epoch in the history of fiction in so far as its incidents are taken from the inner life". One of her shrewdest early reviewers, R.H. Hutton, compared her work to that of her popular contemporary, Anthony Trollope, saying: "He scours a greater surface of modern life but rarely or never the emotions which lie concealed behind. His characters are carved out of the materials of ordinary society; George Eliot's include many which make ordinary society seem a sort of satire on the life behind." Today, for fans and detractors alike, says Josie Billington in her succinct but comprehensive and highly entertaining guide, Middlemarch is synonymous with what we mean by the terms "novel", "realism" and "Victorian", and its power to move modern audiences was demonstrated by the powerful appeal of the BBC dramatisation in 1994. So what makes this novel great even for those who feel cheated or saddened by it? For the novel's passionate admirers, Henry James among them, "that supreme sense of the vastness and variety of human life... which it belongs only to the greatest novels to produce" offers its own rich consolations. Perhaps that sentiment is best summed up by the 20th-century novelist Stanley Middleton, who said, if we have no God, we do at least have Middlemarch.
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ISBN-13: 9781907776076
ISBN-10: 1907776079
Pagini: 128
Ilustrații: 2 B&W, 3 Colour
Dimensiuni: 172 x 147 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.15 kg
Editura: CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD
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Virginia Woolf described Middlemarch as one of the few novels written for grown-ups. Josie Billington tells us what lies beneath the surface of this richest, most powerful of 19th century stories.