Portrait of Will's Grandmother
The portrait of Will's grandmother comes up again and again. Dorothea associates it with Will, because it looks like him, but it...Middlemarch, England
The novel is set in the fictional town of Middlemarch, England in 1830-1832. (For more on why it's set in 1830, when it was written in 187...Third Person (Omniscient)
The narrator of Middlemarch doesn't just know everything about everybody in the novel (that's what "third person omniscient" m...Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Middlemarch falls into the category of literary fiction pretty tidily: it's a novel, it's written in prose, and the...Detached
Middlemarch is, as we learn from the subtitle, a "Study of Provincial Life." Sounds scientific, doesn't it? And science calls for objectivity....Erudite
We're using a five-dollar word to describe the style of Middlemarch because that's the kind of vocabulary Eliot uses for most of the novel. "Eru...Middlemarch is the name of the town where almost every scene of novel takes place. It's a pretty average place, as the "middle" part of the name suggests. It's a fictional town, but one that is sup...
There isn't an epigraph to Middlemarch, but there is a "Prelude" to the story, so we'll think about that here. (You can read the Prelude
The ending of Middlemarch is a problem for a lot of readers and critics: is it a happy ending? This is an honest question – we learn in the "Finale" chapter what happens to all the maj...
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