Middlemarch
George Eliot
Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945
Beschreibung
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life is centered on the lives of the residents of Middlemarch, a fictitious Midlands town, from 1829 onwards—the years preceding the 1832 Reform Act. The narrative is variably considered to consist of three or four plots of unequal emphasis: the life of Dorothea Brooke; the career of Tertius Lydgate; the courtship of Mary Garth by Fred Vincy; and the disgrace of Nicholas Bulstrode. Significant themes include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education.
Kundenbewertungen
Social commentary, Idealism vs self-interest, Female author, Provincial life, Realistic writing style, Victorian era, Gender roles, English countryside, Adult readership, Reform act