num_pages: 770
description: Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed the passionate artist Will and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein.
language: English
title: Middlemarch: An authoritative text, backgrounds, reviews and criticism
titlecomplete: Middlemarch: An authoritative text, backgrounds, reviews and criticism
characters: Mary Garth, Rosamond Vincy, John Raffles, Celia Brooke, Will Ladislaw, Dorothea Brooke, Fred Vincy, Joshua Rigg, Edward Casaubon, Sir James Chettam, Tertius Lydgate, Caleb Garth, Camden Farebrother, Arthur Brooke, Harriet Bulstrode, Peter Featherstone, Nicholas Bulstrode
genres: Victorian, Audiobook, Romance, Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, British Literature
ratings_count: 158441
places: Midlands, England, England, West Midlands, England
publisher: W.W. Norton