This Norton Critical Edition of George Eliot's highly regarded novel of provincial English life is based on the 1874 edition, the last corrected by the author. Ample explanatory annotation has been provided by the editor.
"Backgrounds" elucidates Eliot's ideas on life and art with generous selections from her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works. Five contemporary reviews record Middlemarch's initial reception.
"Recent Criticism" collects eleven essays——seven of them new to the Second Edition——that center on the novel's major themes. Mark Schorer, Jerome Beaty, Cherry Wilhelm, Bert G. Hornback, Robert B. Heihnan, Lee R. Edwards, Alan Mintz, T. R. Wright, Matthew Rich, Alan Shelston, and Claudia Moscovici provide their varied perspectives.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included. ABOUT THE SERIES: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritative text, contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations—from contemporary perspectives to the most current critical theory——as well as a bibliography and, in many cases, a chronology of" the author's life and work.
【目录】
Preface
The Text of Middlemarch
Backgrounds
George Eliot·Letter to Sara Sophia Hennell (9 October 1843)
From The Natural History of German Life (1856)
From Amos Barton (1857)
Journal (30 November 1858)
From Adam Bede (1859)
Letter to Charles Bray (5 July 1859)
Letter to Mme. Eugene Bodichon (26 December 1860)
Letter to Mine. Eug~ne Bodichon (15 February 1862)
Letter to Frederic Harrison (15 August 1866)
Letter to Clifford Allbutt (August 1868)
From Notes on Form in Art (1868)
Journal (1 January 1869)
George Henry Lewes·Letter to John Blackwood (7 May 1871)
John Blaekwood·Letter to George Eliot (20 July 1871)
George Eliot·Letter to John Blackwood (4 August 1872)
Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe (October? 1872)
Journal (1 January 1873)
Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe (11 November 1874)
Emily Davies·Letter to Annie Crow (24 September 1876)
George Eliot * From Leaves from a Notebook (1871-79) Quarry for "Middlemarch"
Criticism
CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS
Saturday Review·Middlemarch
[Sidney Colvin]·Middlemarch
Henry James·George Eliot's MiddIemarch
Joseph Jacobs·George Eliot
Leslie Stephen·IOn Middlemarch]
RECENT CRITICISM
Mark Schorer·Fiction and the "Matrix of Analogy"
Jerome Beaty·History by Indirection: The Era of Reform in MiddIemarch
Cherry Wilhehn·Conservative Reform in Middlemareh
Bert G. Hornback·The Moral Imagination of George Eliot
Robert B. Heilman·"Stealthy Convergence" in Middlemarch
Lee R. Edwards " Women, Energy, and Middlemarch
Alan Mintz·Middlemarch: The Romance of Vocation
T. R. Wright·Middlemarch as a Religious Novel, or Life without God
Matthew Rich·"Not a Church, but an Individual Who Is His or Her Own Church": Religion in George Eliot's Middlemarch Alan Shelston·What Rosy Knew: Language, Learning and Lore in Middlemarch
Claudia Moscovici " Allusive Mischaracterization in Middlemarch
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