Middlemarch : : Epigraphs and Mirrors / / Adam Roberts.

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.
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (149 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Adam Roberts
  • 1. Eliot's Double Mirror / Adam Roberts
  • 2. Sappho's Apple / Adam Roberts
  • 3. Lydgate Winces: Character and Realism / Adam Roberts
  • 4. Hypocrisy and the Judgment of Men / Adam Roberts
  • 5. Ladislaw / Adam Roberts
  • 6. Myth, Middlemarch and the Mill: Out in Mid-Sea / Adam Roberts
  • 7. Epigraphy: Beginnings and Ends / Adam Roberts
  • Postscript: The Flute inside the Bell / Adam Roberts
  • Bibliography
  • List of Illustrations
  • Index.