Middlemarch

novel by George Eliot

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is the best-known book written by English author George Eliot. It was first published in eight volumes during 1871–72. The novel is set in the fictional Midlands town of Middlemarch during 1829–32.[1]

Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life
Title page, first ed., Vol. 1, William Blackwood and Sons, 1871 (First volume of eight)
AuthorGeorge Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)
Working titleMiss Brooke
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
Set inEnglish Midlands and briefly Rome, September 1829 — May 1832
Published1871–2
PublisherWilliam Blackwood and Sons
Media typePrint
823.8
Preceded byFelix Holt, the Radical (1866) 
Followed byDaniel Deronda (1874–6) 
TextMiddlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life at Wikisource

Further reading

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  • Adam, Ian, ed. (1975). This Particular Web: essays on Middlemarch. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Bloom, Harold (2009). George Eliot. Infobase Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4381-1600-6.
  • Carroll, David (1971). George Eliot: the Critical Heritage. London: Routledge & K. Paul.
  • Chase, Karen, ed. (2006). Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Daiches, David (1963). George Eliot: Middlemarch. London: Arnold.
  • Dentith, Simon (1986). George Eliot.
  • Garrett, Peter K (1980). The Victorian Multiplot Novel: Studies in Dialogical Form. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-02403-6.
  • Graver, Suzanne (1984). George Eliot and Community: A Study in Social Theory and Fictional Form.
  • Harvey, W. J. (1961). The Art of George Eliot. London: Chatto & Windus.
  • Coral Ann Howells; F. S. Schwarzbach, Geoffrey Tillotson, James Reed, Patricia M. Ball, Penelope Vigar, Sarah Tytler, Stanley Gardner, Various (2013). The Heart's Events: The Victorian Poetry of Relationships. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-4725-3614-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Kettle, Arnold (1951). An Introduction to the English Novel, Volume I: To George Eliot. London: Hutchinson.
  • Neale, Catherine (1989). George Eliot, Middlemarch. Penguin Group.

References

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  1. The Bloomsbury Guide to English Literature, ed. Marion Wynne–Davies. New York: Prentice Hall, 1990, p. 719. Carolyn Steedman, "Going to Middlemarch: History and the Novel", Michigan Quarterly Review XL, no. 3 (Summer 2001). Retrieved 13 April 2013

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