Middlemarch (Norton Critical Editions)

by Eliot, George; Hornback, Bert G

• ISBN13: 9780393974522
• ISBN10: 0393974529
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-17
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Summary

This panoramic work--considered the finest novel in English by many critics--offers a complex look at English provincial life at a crucial historical moment, and, at the same time, dramatizes and explores some of the most potent myths of Victorian literature. The text of this edition comesfrom the Clarendon Middlemarch, the first critical edition of the novel.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
The Text of Middlemarch	1	(674)
Backgrounds
Letter to Sara Sophia Hennell (9 October 1843)	519	(13)
George Eliot
From The Natural History of German Life (1856)	520	(1)
From Amos Barton (1857)	521	(1)
Journal (30 November 1858)	522	(1)
From Adam Bede (1859)	523	(3)
Letter to Charles Bray (5 July 1859)	526	(1)
Letter to Mme. Eugene Bodichon (26 December 1860)	526	(1)
Letter to Mme. Eugene Bodichon (15 February 1862)	527	(1)
Letter to Frederic Harrison (15 August 1866)	528	(1)
Letter to Clifford Allbutt (August 1868)	529	(1)
From Notes on Form in Art (1868)	529	(3)
Journal (1 January 1869)	532	(1)
Letter to John Blackwood (7 May 1871)	532	(1)
George Henry Lewes
Letter to George Eliot (20 July 1871)	533	(1)
John Blackwood
Letter to John Blackwood (4 August 1872)	534	(2)
George Eliot
Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe (October? 1872)	534	(1)
Journal (1 January 1873)	535	(1)
Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe (11 November 1874)	535	(1)
Letter to Annie Crow (24 September 1876)	536	(1)
Emily Davies
From Leaves from a Notebook (1871-79)	537	(36)
George Eliot
Quarry for ``Middlemarch''	539	(34)
Criticism
Contemporary Reviews
Saturday Review • Middlemarch	573	(2)
[Sidney Colvin] • Middlemarch	575	(3)
George Eliot's Middlemarch	578	(3)
Henry James
George Eliot	581	(1)
Joseph Jacobs
[On Middlemarch]	582	(5)
Leslie Stephen
Recent Criticism
Fiction and the ``Matrix of Analogy''	587	(6)
Mark Schorer
History by Indirection: The Era of Reform in Middlemarch	593	(4)
Jerome Beaty
Conservative Reform in Middlemarch	597	(9)
Cherry Wilhelm
The Moral Imagination of George Eliot	606	(12)
Bert G. Hornback
``Stealthy Convergence'' in Middlemarch	618	(5)
Robert B. Heilman
Women, Energy, and Middlemarch	623	(7)
Lee R. Edwards
Middlemarch: The Romance of Vocation	630	(10)
Alan Mintz
Middlemarch as a Religious Novel, or Life without God	640	(9)
T. R. Wright
``Not a Church, but an Individual Who Is His or Her Own Church'': Religion in George Eliot's Middlemarch	649	(7)
Matthew Rich
What Rosy Knew: Language, Learning and Lore in Middlemarch	656	(7)
Alan Shelston
Allusive Mischaracterization in Middlemarch	663	(12)
Claudia Moscovici
A Chronology	675	(2)
George Eliot
Selected Bibliography	677