... and Shaw Harry E. . Malden : Wiley-Blackwell , 2013 . 294 – 308 . Boone Joseph Allen . Tradition Counter Tradition: Love and the Form of Fiction . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1987 . Brilmyer S. Pearl . “ Plasticity, Form, and the Matter of Character in Middlemarch...

..., 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...

... 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...

...” ( Playing and Reality 73 ). Chapter 4 is about the aliveness of Eliot's narrative voice in Middlemarch . As in previous chapters, the Victorian author is seen as having the function of an analyst, and the novel is the analytic situation. Christoff's interlocutors here are Heimann...

... something about how, in Eliot's view, political activity must end ( 792 ). With a similar logic, Bruce K. Martin, arguing that in Middlemarch “as in her other fiction, George Eliot's narration is infused with suggestions of a morally efficient universe, stocked with determinable motives and actions...

... novels will be deeply grateful that Kreilkamp has written this wonderful book tracing the attempts to broaden novelistic form beyond the anthropocentric. Although he returns to Eliot's lines about listening “to the squirrel's heart beat” several times, it is with another line from Middlemarch that I...

... . 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...

..., Middlemarch to Lord Jim to Sea of Poppies . A dialectic emerges: we begin with a clearly defined national space, negated by a hazy understanding of the global that is itself negated in turn by a clearly defined global space. That Middlemarch might be a helpful reference point for Sea of Poppies...

..."-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...

... of a story or the “folk wisdom” tirelessly handed out by the narrator of Eliot's Middlemarch —are possible candidates to dialectically oppose the past-present-future chain of storytelling. However, Jameson does not consider them strong enough to oust the classic alternative to narration, description...

... , Anthony Trollope's The Way We Live Now , and George Eliot's Middlemarch . © 2009 by Novel, Inc. 2009 Envy and Victorian Fiction William A. Cohen Structuralist accounts of the classic novel have long noted that the genre’s formal constraints pull narrative in two opposing...

... 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...

... . Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life . Ed. Maertz Gregory . Peterborough : Broadview Editions , 2000 . Eliot George . The Mill on the Floss . 1860 . Ed. Christ Carol T. . New York : Norton , 1994 . Eliot George . Romola . 1863 . Ed. Barrett Dorothea . London...

... . 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...

... House , Will Ladislaw in George Eliot's Middlemarch , and Paul in Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook as embodying this liberal combination of local action with a larger understanding of social pressures and determinants. Woodcourt, a doctor, combines “two attitudes,” with his professional knowledge...

... interesting engagements with texts that he produces. In a provocative reading of Middlemarch , Farina focuses on Mr. Brooke's rambling usage of the word something (as when the would-be MP says, “Now there was something singular,” and then proceeds to stumble from one meaningless anecdote to another) (143...