Middlemarch : Epigraphs and Mirrors.
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 at...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK :
Open Book Publishers,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of 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.