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..., as often in Middlemarch —for example, in the well-known “but why always Dorothea?” passage—Eliot is self-consciously aware of her own fiction making. In this case, specifically, she is adversarially aware of literature's repetitive narrative patterns: the plots we tell over and over, to a wearying degree...

... "master" Keble's The Christian Year, which "sold an average of 10,000 copies a year for fifty years" after its publication in 1827 (39; Prickett 104). The reading materials we find in Dorothea's boudoir at the moment of Casaubon's death are a jumble of these and other cultural inheritances...

... that the refusal to devour is an ethical stance, relating it to Middlemarch 's Dorothea Brooke and other “ethically admirable” characters in Eliot's magisterial, Darwin-influenced novel. Kreilkamp analyzes this ethical stance as a part of “pastoral care”: “Every living being potentially maintains a pastoral...

... of the scene in Middlemarch in which Dorothea overcomes her sorrow and visits Rosamund to offer her support. The scene is normally interpreted as an act of selflessness on Dorothea's part, which in turn produces a moral transformation (albeit temporary) in Rosamund. Ablow turns such readings on their head...

... that linger in the later novels. Readers of Eliot will compile their own mental lists; for me, the chief missed opportunity is Middlemarch. Yeazell places the novel in the Italian column because it likens Dorothea Brooke to St. Theresa and to the Madonna as she “appeared to Italian painters...

... nature, cannot remain entirely impersonal; they need individual personality—however fictive—to create authority. In the coda to her book, Brilmyer returns to a famous question in Middlemarch : “[B]ut why always Dorothea?” The frequency with which we visit this question attests to our enduring...

... Middlemarch . This glitch occurs in the opening paragraph of chapter 28, as the narrator is describing Dorothea's return to Lowick Manor after her wedding trip in Rome: Mr and Mrs Casaubon, returning from their wedding journey, arrived at Lowick Manor in the middle of January. A light snow was falling...

... party, Eliot cannot bear for anyone to remain alone for long. Coming as the novel is both completing the introduction of its central characters and shifting narrative attention away from its heroine, Dorothea Brooke, a reader might be forgiven for wondering where this is all headed, a concern...

...). Similarly, she defends the much-maligned Will Ladislaw of Middlemarch as representing an alternative to the idea, represented by Dorothea, that individual moral probity is the key to social improvement. Will “is working not on behalf of individuals or even of utopian community (as Dorothea would...

... to the presentation in the novel’s prelude of Dorothea Brooke as a ­modern—and thus cruelly diminished and averaged out—version of Saint The- resa. This dynamic, whereby we come to know characters by the epic precedents they fail adequately to revive, is given its most overt delineation in Middlemarch...

... all conform to a symbolic order unfolding before the reader. In Middlemarch, the troping force of metonyms is narrated away so that readers are confined to a text already fully interpreted. Freedgood demonstrates how hsworks in a truly wonderful reading of Dorothea's "poor dress," the object...

...,” Ferguson writes, Austen “also recognizes the pressure that this formation exerts on individuality” ( 240 ). Thus, the courses of action Emma follows are not only hers; rather, communal opinions “foreshadow an individual's actions” (239). With regard to decision-making, Dorothea's uncertainty is deepened...

... UP, 2001 . Auster , Henry . Local Habitations: Regionalism in the Early Novels of George Eliot . Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1970 . Bailin , Miriam . “‘Dismal Pleasure’: Victorian Sentimentality and the Pathos of the Parvenu.” ELH 66 ( 1999 ): 1015 –32. Barrett , Dorothea...

..., such as the importance he attributes to bodily existence and the idea that knowl- edge takes place in situation, as Dorothea Olkowski points out (3–23). 4 I use the terms embodiment and corporeality interchangeably throughout this essay. Merleau- Ponty’s conception of corporeality emphasizes...

... the experience of others' mental states: “Dorothea feels real to us, even now, not because we feel what she does or know what she knows, but because we can experience what it feels like to think along with her—to consider her situation in light of the attitudes she can (and cannot) hold or express within...

... disappear, but bedevil her fictional couples and communities" (109). If with Dickens we look at all the creeps and wonder what's up, with Eliot, we look, in Lane's words, at the "unwarranted altruism" of Eliot's characters, or, in the words of Ladislaw (characterizing Dorothea), their "fanati- cism...

... life of Maggie Tulliver. While Middlemarch might seem to be the classic instance of provinciality and therefore of relative epistemological manageability, Duncan restores the significance of the “involuntary, palpitating life” of which Dorothea feels herself to be a part, a life that is “microscopic...

... to Dorothea von Miicke's Virtue and the Veil oflllusion, have traced the centrality of contemporary epistemological theories and related educational philosophies and institutional practices to eighteenth- and nineteenth- century novels. It is little over a decade since both Armstrong's and Bender's...

... mental activity was generated within readers' minds by the serial format in which many Victorian novels were first published. The original readers of Middlemarch spent a year learning the futures of Dorothea and L~dgate,~and In Britain, the novel was published in eight installments between...

...” in Darwin's prose, he mentions that “something” also carries its own peculiar libidinal charge—a point that he returns to around page 156 in his reading of Middlemarch 's Dorothea (137). All of this is to say that the experience of reading Farina's study can be a little bit disorienting. But perhaps...