Eliot: Middlemarch
- ISBN-10
- 0521350212
- ISBN-13
- 9780521350211
- Series
- Eliot
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 117
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1991-08-30
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Karen Chase
Description
A comprehensive introduction to Middlemarch, offering both general information and an original interpretation. It pays considerable attention to the intellectual and social context surrounding Middlemarch, and situates the work within nineteenth-century traditions of the novel in England and Europe. Karen Chase gives particular emphasis to the Woman Question in Middlemarch.
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