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Middlemarch: Middlemarch, cartea 163

Autor George Eliot
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en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 mai 2018

Ca și The Mill on the Floss, această lucrare explorează tensiunea dintre aspirațiile individuale și rigorile unei comunități provinciale, dar dintr-o perspectivă mult mai matură și panoramică, abandonând nostalgia în favoarea unei analize sociale chirurgicale. Observăm în Middlemarch nu doar un roman, ci un efort enciclopedic de a cartografia „istoria omului” prin prisma unor vieți aparent mărunte. Premisa este așezată sub semnul Sfintei Tereza: ce se întâmplă cu sufletele arzătoare care nu găsesc un canal epic pentru idealismul lor? Dorothea Brooke devine astfel simbolul unei grandori spirituale neadaptate la „micimea oportunităților” dintr-un oraș de provincie englezesc. În contextul operei sale, dacă Silas Marner sau Adam Bede păstrează un ton mai degrabă pastoral, Middlemarch reprezintă apogeul realismului psihologic al lui George Eliot. Structura cărții, subintitulată „A Study of Provincial Life”, este una de o complexitate remarcabilă, împletind destinele Dorotheei și ale medicului Lydgate cu o precizie care justifică faimoasa apreciere a Virginiei Woolf: este un roman pentru oameni maturi. Ritmul lecturii este dictat de o proză densă, meditativă, unde acțiunea exterioară este subordonată mișcărilor interioare ale conștiinței. Ediția de față, publicată de OUP OXFORD, îmbogățește experiența prin includerea unor anexe valoroase: eseuri ale autoarei despre moralitate și literatură, precum și recenzii de epocă, oferind cititorului coordonatele intelectuale necesare pentru a înțelege profunzimea acestui „monument” al literaturii victoriene.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781509857449
ISBN-10: 1509857443
Pagini: 840
Dimensiuni: 103 x 157 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New Edition
Editura: MacMillan Publishers Int Ltd - MDL
Colecția Middlemarch
Seria Middlemarch


De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Middlemarch cititorului care caută o experiență de lectură profundă, capabilă să oglindească complexitatea relațiilor umane și a compromisurilor sociale. Câștigați acces la o analiză psihologică fără egal în literatura secolului al XIX-lea și la un context critic de excepție oferit de Oxford World's Classics. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege evoluția romanului modern și luptele interioare ale individului împotriva convențiilor.


Despre autor

George Eliot, pseudonimul literar al lui Mary Anne Evans (1819–1880), a fost una dintre cele mai influente voci ale epocii victoriene. Într-o perioadă în care literatura feminină era adesea redusă la romane de moravuri ușoare, ea a adoptat un nume masculin pentru a se asigura că scrierile sale sunt tratate cu seriozitate intelectuală. Erudiția sa vastă, influențată de cultura germană și de studiile filozofice, se reflectă în realismul psihologic dens și în compasiunea față de eșecurile umane. Prin operele sale, George Eliot a transformat romanul într-un instrument de analiză socială și etică, rămânând până astăzi un reper al literaturii universale.


Descriere scurtă

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Dorothea Brooke is a beautiful and idealistic young woman set on filling her life with good deeds. She pursues the pompous Edward Casuabon, convinced that he embodies these principles, and becomes trapped in an unhappy marriage. Then there is Tertius Lydgate, an anguished progressive whose determination to bring modern medicine to the provinces is muddied by unrequited love. They, and a multitude of other brilliantly drawn characters, reside in the town Middlemarch - the background to George Eliot's incomparable portrait of Victorian life. An eternal masterpiece of candid observation, emotional insight and transcending humour, Middlemarch is a truly monumental novel. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan.

Notă biografică

George Eliot (1819-80) was born Mary Ann Evans into the family of a Warwickshire land agent and did not escape provincial life until she was 30. But she was brilliantly self-educated and able at once to shine in London literary circles. It was, however, her novels of English rural life that brought her fame, starting with Adam Bede, published under her new pen name in 1859, and reaching a zenith with Middlemarch in 1871. Eliot was a devoutly moral woman but lived for 25 years with a man who already had a wife. It is indicative of the respect and love that she inspired in her most devoted readers that Queen Victoria was one of them.

Descriere

George Eliot's realist masterpiece, with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan

Textul de pe ultima copertă

In a panoramic sweep of the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, George Eliot explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamund Vincy, beautiful and egoistic; Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar; Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally flawed physician; the passionate artist, Will Ladislaw; and Fred Vincy and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's comic vein.


Recenzii

George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871-72) is one of the classic novels of English literature and was admired by Virginia Woolf as “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people.” The complex main plot and many subplots revolve around Dorothea Brooke, an ardent young woman, and her relationship to three men: Casaubon, a clergyman and scholar twice her age; Lydgate, an ambitious young doctor who shares Dorothea’s enthusiasm for reform but whose flaws compromise his ambitions; and Will Ladislaw, a young man of mysterious origins, romantic temperament, and artistic inclinations. A female Bildungsroman and a study of character and society in the realistic mode pioneered by Balzac, Middlemarch is also an historical novel that offers a panorama of English society in an era of social reform and political agitation.
This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and a rich selection of contextual materials, including contemporary reviews of the novel, other writings by George Eliot (essays, reviews, and criticism), and historical documents pertaining to medical reform, religious freedom, and the advent of the railroads.

“Broadview Press and editor Gregory Maertz have produced a text whose rich but judicious contextual annotation, notably highlighting Eliot’s deep immersion in German culture, makes this a crucial edition of what is arguably the greatest Victorian novel of them all.” — Michael McKeon, Rutgers University
“Gregory Maertz’s fine new edition of Middlemarch allows readers to consider the novel in relation to a range of documents—reviews and other writings by George Eliot, contemporary reviews of the novel, and contextual material. This additional material both enriches our reading of the novel and its concerns and expands our knowledge of the period.” — Mark Turner, King’s College London

Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Introduction
George Eliot: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
Appendix A: George Eliot’s Essays, Reviews, and Criticism
  1. “Woman in France: Madame de Sablé,” Westminster Review (October 1854)
  2. “The Morality of Wilhelm Meister,” The Leader (21 July 1855)
  3. From “Margaret Fuller and Mary Wollstonecraft,” The Leader (13 October 1855)
  4. From Review of John Ruskin’s Modern Painters (1856), Westminster Review (April 1856)
  5. From “The Natural History of German Life,” Westminster Review (July 1856)
  6. “Silly Novels by Lady Novelists,” Westminster Review (October 1856)
Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of Middlemarch
  1. From Edward Dowden, “George Eliot,” Contemporary Review (August 1872)
  2. From Richard Holt Hutton, review of Middlemarch, Spectator (7 December 1872)
  3. From Edith Simcox, “Middlemarch,” Academy (1 January 1873)
  4. From [Henry James], unsigned review, Galaxy (March 1873)
  5. [William Hurrell Mallock], unsigned review of Impressions of Theophrastus Such (1879), Edinburgh Review (October 1879)
  6. Margaret Oliphant, Chapter XI, “Of the Younger Novelists,” The Victorian Age of English Literature (1882)
  7. From Sir John Emerich Edward Dalberg, first Baron Acton, “George Eliot’s Life,” Nineteenth Century (March 1885)
  8. Virginia Woolf, “George Eliot,” Times Literary Supplement (20 November 1919)
Appendix C: Historical Documents: Medical Reform, Religious Freedom, and the Advent of the Railroads
  1. From “The Apothecaries Act” (1815)
  2. From “The Roman Catholic Relief Act” (1829)
  3. From “An Act to amend the representation of the people in England and Wales” (1832)
  4. From “An Act for regulating Schools of Anatomy” (1832)
  5. Liverpool and Manchester Railroad Company Prospectus (1824)
  6. From [Commentary on the projected Liverpool and Manchester Railway], Quarterly Review (March 1825)
  7. From “An Act to consolidate and amend the Acts relating to the Property of Married Women” (1882)
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