Middlemarch

Middlemarch: epigraphs and mirrors

by Roberts, Adam, (Adam Charles)

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In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon's obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot's use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Middlemarch : epigraphs and mirrors / Adam Roberts.

Summary

In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon's obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot's use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2021

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Open Book Publishers
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2021

The Physical Object

  • Description:149 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781800641587, 1800641583, 9781800641594, 1800641591
  • oclc:on1245925968
  • LC Classification:PR4662
  • Dewey Decimal:823/.8

Table of Contents

Eliot's double mirror -- Sappho's apple -- Lydgate winces : character and realism -- Hypocrisy and the judgement of men -- Ladislaw -- Myth, Middlemarch and the Mill : out in mid-sea -- Epigraphy : beginnings and ends -- Postscript : the flute inside the bell.

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Subjects

Allusions dans la littérature Allusions in literature Citations dans la littérature Eliot, George Middlemarch (Eliot, George) Quotations in literature

Writers

Roberts, Adam, (Adam Charles)

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