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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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, UK : : Open Book Publishers,, 2021.
Ã2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (162 pages)
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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.