Middlemarch: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism

Eliot, George/ Hornback, Bert G.

ISBN 10: 0393974529 / ISBN 13: 9780393974522

Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1999

Beschreibung

2nd sub edition. 678 pages. 9.25x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 0393974529

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Middlemarch: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, Criticism
• Verlag: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0393974529
• ISBN-13: 9780393974522
• Einband: Paperback
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: Brand New

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Inhaltsangabe

For this new edition, the text has been reset in a larger typeface for ease of reading.

"Backgrounds" helps readers understand Eliot’s ideas on life and art with generous selections from her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works.

"Contemporary Reviews" records the impressions of Sidney Colvin, Henry James, Joseph Jacobs, and Leslie Stephen.

"Recent Criticism" collects eleven essays-seven of them new to this edition-which center on the novel's major themes. Contributors include Mark Schorer, Jerome Beaty, Cherry Wilhelm, Robert Heilman, Lee R. Edwards, Alan Mintz, T. R. Wright, Matthew Rich, Alan Shelston, and Claudia Moscovici.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Born Mary Ann Evans, Victorian novelist George Eliot (1819-1880) is the author of a number of remarkable works, including the masterpiece Middlemarch.

Bert G. Hornback is emeritus professor of English at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he received two university awards for distinguished teaching. Since 1992, he is professor of humanities at Bellarmine College in Louisville. He is the author of five books on nineteenth-century English fiction, past president of the Dickens Society, and director of the Center for the Advancement of Peripheral Thought.