Title: Middlemarch : an authoritative text, backgrounds, reviews and criticism /
Authors: Eliot, George, 1819-1880; Hornback, Bert G., 1935-
Publisher: Norton,
Year: 1977
Subjects: Eliot, George,; Eliot, George; Eliot, George.; City and town life Fiction; Married people Fiction; Young women Fiction; England Fiction.
Abstract: Related essays, journals, and letters accompany the story of the loosely entwined lives of Dorothea Brooke, Dr. Lydgate, and the Vincy family in a middle-class town.
Contents: The text of Middlemarch -- Backgrounds -- Reviews and criticism (Middlemarch / Saturday Review -- Middlemarch / Sidney Colvin -- George Eliot's Middlemarch / Henry James -- George Eliot / Joseph Jacobs -- On Middlemarch / Leslie Stephen -- Character and environment in George Eliot's fiction / Walter Allen -- The moral imagination of George Eliot / Bert G. Hornback -- Women, energy, and Middlemarch / Lee R. Edwards -- Special pleading and art in Middlemarch : the relations between the sexes / Lloyd Fernando -- History by indirection : the era of reform in Middlemarch / Jerome Beaty -- Fiction and theh "matrix of analogy" / Mark Schorer -- The language of the novel / Hilda M. Hulme -- George Eliot : through the looking glass / Edwin J. Kenney, Jr. -- Dorothea's husbands / Richard Ellmann.