Middlemarch : an authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism /
George Eliot ; edited by Bert G. Hornback.
- 2nd ed.
- New York : W.W. Norton, c2000.
- ix, 678 p ; 24 cm.
- Norton critical edition .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 677-678).
Presents an annotated version of the 1874 novel that provides a portrait of 19th century English provincial life focusing on Dorothea Brooks and her two marriages, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family. Includes eleven critical essays.
City and town life--Fiction. Married people--Fiction. Young women--Fiction. Bildungsromans. City and town life--Fiction. Didactic fiction. Domestic fiction. Love stories. Married people--Fiction. Young women--Fiction.
England--Fiction. England--Fiction.
Bildungsromans. Didactic fiction. Domestic fiction. Love stories.