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... with hidden dread. She, sensing the unpleasantness, turns a head to look away. Wedded misery in George Eliot's Middlemarch does not mean spectacular incidents—adultery, abuse, sexual fallenness, or the like. It means subtle, ordinary provocation, underlain by mundane disappointment and mistrust...

..., and George Eliot's Middlemarch stakes its claim as a novel not only alongside, but also beyond, sensibilities and modes sociological, that other explorer of the “new social continent.” This essay shows that the novel's desire to secure its difference from sociological practices is strong enough to write...

... Eliot’s Middlemarch, where I focus on Eliot’s treatment of professional lan- guage. Alan Mintz explored Eliot’s relationship to professionalism in his seminal 1978 study, George Eliot and the Novel of Vocation, so scholars of nineteenth-century professionalism have tended to focus on other authors...

... ELAINE FREEDGOOD, The Ideas in Things: Fugitive Meaning in the Victorian Nogel (New York: U of Chicago P, 2006), pp. 196, cloth, $29.00. Elaine Freedgood's pursuit of fugitive meanings in Victorian novels takes her through Jane Eyre, Mary Barton, Great Expectafions, and Middlemarch...

... on the world is not monumental but rather ‘diffusive,’” as Eliot describes Dorothea at the end of Middlemarch ( 208 , citing Eliot 785 ), and to stress the “representation of the involuntary forces that determine the character of humans and other living beings” ( 167 ). The aesthetic strategy of focusing...

... and Morality . New York, [ 1873 ]. Eliot , George . Felix Holt, The Radical . 1866. Ed. Fred C. Thompson Oxford: Clarendon P, 1980 . Eliot , George . The Letters of George Eliot . Ed. Gordon S. Haight 9 vols . New Haven: Yale UP, 1954 –78. Eliot , George . Middlemarch: A Study...

... and rewarding study of the Victorian novel and object relations psychoanalysis. First of all, it is a major contribution to the criticism on George Eliot and Thomas Hardy. The book's sustained and attentive readings of The Mill on the Floss , Middlemarch , The Return of the Native , and Tess...

... concept of “critical cosmopolitanism” ( 70–71, 89 ), though for Anderson the critical perspectives of “negative characters” tend to emerge despite the narrative rhetoric, not as part of it ( 78 ). 15 See J. Hillis Miller , who, in arguing that the incommensurable metaphors in Middlemarch...

... sisters (Emily's Wuthering Heights , Charlotte's Jane Eyre , and Anne's Agnes Grey ); Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Great Expectations ; George Eliot's Middlemarch ; Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd (with passages from Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure ); Arthur Conan...

... . Eliot , George . Adam Bede . 1859. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985 . ———. Daniel Deronda . 1876. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1995 . ———. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life . 1871-72. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1994 . ———. The Mill on the Floss . 1860. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979...

...Paul K. Saint-Amour RUTH BERNARD YEAZELL, Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2007), pp. 274, cloth, $35.00. © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Work Cited Eliot , George . Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life . New York: Alden...

... . . . peripheral realisms approach the world-system as partially, potentially describable in its concrete reality” ( 285 ). Without agreeing to all its details, we can see how this argument allows us to plot a trajectory from, say, Middlemarch to Lord Jim to Sea of Poppies . A dialectic emerges: we begin...

..."-an explanation NOVEL I FALL 2005 that would have been welcome earlier in the book. Borrowing from Hans Blumenberg he argues that Middlemarch articulates the paradoxical work of modernity whereby it "ac- complishes 'not the secularization of eschatology but rather secularization...

... together within a single sentence. For instance, in describing the melodramatic scene in which we meet with the first embrace ofD orothea Brooke and Will Ladislaw in Middlemarch, Puckett writes, “The storm is not only corny insofar as it exploits without subtlety the pathetic fallacy but also...

... developments of nineteenth-century European realism. Yet despite the number and role of conceptual elements in Middlemarch , one cannot doubt that the dominant of Eliot's novel is mimetic and not speculative. Unlike statements in philosophical works like Plato's Phaedrus or Søren Kierkegaard's Either...

... , Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now , and George Eliot's Middlemarch . © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Works Cited Brooks , Peter . Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative . New York: Knopf, 1984 . Dickens , Charles . Little Dorrit . 1857. London: Penguin, 2003...

... of statistical analysis in Scenes of Clerical Life, Middlemarch , and Daniel Deronda. In the second half of this essay, I offer a rereading of Dickens's Great Expectations and argue that the International Statistical Congress of 1860, the Census of 1861, and the surrounding debates regarding the value...

.... A universalizing impulse underlies Brilmyer's argumentation. For instance, in her illustration of the plasticity of character in Middlemarch , she concludes that Eliot “reveals something about the nature of literary character, an inorganic yet still plastic material formation that, irrespective of time and place...

... . Eliot George . Felix Holt, the Radical . 1866 . Ed. William Baker and Womack Kenneth . Peterborough : Broadview Literary Texts , 2000 . Eliot George . Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life . Ed. Maertz Gregory . Peterborough : Broadview Editions , 2000...

... . Eliot , George . The Mill on the Floss . 1860. Boston: Houghton, 1961 . Eliot , George . Middlemarch . 1871–72. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985 . Eliot , George . “The Natural History of German Life.” 1856. Essays . Illustrated Sterling Ed. Boston: Dana Estes, n.d. 157 –93...