Ready Reference Treatise: Middlemarch

By Raja Sharma

The novel "Middlemarch"describes in detail that the choice of an occupation by which one earns a living is also very important issue. The author very clearly points to the consequences of making wrong choices in life.

The author also points to the consequences if a woman is confined to the domestic sphere alone after her marriage. Dorothea wants to be involved in social reform but her ambition is never realized.

Ready Reference Treatise: Middlemarch
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Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: History and Background
Chapter Three: More about “Middlemarch”
Chapter Four: Characters
Chapter Five: Complete Summary
Chapter Six: Critical Analysis

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raja Sharma
• Release date: Jan 25, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310953262

Raja Sharma

Raja Sharma is a retired college lecturer.He has taught English Literature to University students for more than two decades.His students are scattered all over the world, and it is noticeable that he is in contact with more than ninety thousand of his students.

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Ready Reference Treatise: Middlemarch

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Ready Reference Treatise: Middlemarch

Raja Sharma

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Chapter One: Introduction

Middlemarch by George Eliot was first published in one volume edition in 1874. Before that the novel had appeared in serial form from 1871 to 1872.

The subtitle of Middlemarch is A Study of Provincial Life.

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Anne Evans. It was the seventh novel written by her. She started writing it in 1869, but she put it aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes.

She resumed writing the novel in 1970. She started fusing together many stories into a coherent novel.

When Middlemarch was first published, it received great response and attracted large sales.

Middlemarch is set in a fictitious Midlands town of Middlemarch. It is said that the town is based on Coventry. The time period is between 1830 and 1832.

There are several plots with a number of characters. There are interlocking narratives in the novel. The story pursues a number of underlying themes.

Some of the most significant themes of the novel are the nature of marriage, the status of women, idealism and self interest, religion and hypocrisy, education, and political reform.

The tone of the novel is mildly didactic though the pace