Middlemarch (Oxford Worlds Classics)

基本信息

系列: Oxford World's Classics

Paperback: 864页

出版社: Oxford University Press; 3 (2019年7月1日)

语种： English

ISBN-10: 0198815514

ISBN-13: 978-0198815518

产品尺寸及重量: 130 x 196 x 38mm | 577g

书籍简介

'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts' 

The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot addresses gender relations and class, self-knowledge and self-delusion, community and individualism. 

Eliot follows the fortunes of the town's central characters as they find, lose, and rediscover ideals and vocations in the world. Through its psychologically rich portraits, the novel contains some of the great characters of literature, including the idealistic but naïve Dorothea Brooke, beautiful and egotistical Rosamund Vincy, the dry scholar Edward Casaubon, the wise and grounded Mary Garth, and the brilliant but proud Dr Lydgate. In its whole view of a society, the novel offers enduring insight into the pains and pleasures of life with others, and explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life:. art, religion, science, politics, self, society, and, above all, human relationships. 

This edition uses the definitive Clarendon text.

作者简介

George Eliot

Edited by David Carroll, Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, and David Russell, Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow, University of Oxford

David Carroll is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster, edited the Clarendon edition of Middlemarch (1986). As well as publishing many articles on George Eliot's fiction, he has written Chinua Achebe (1980) and other essays on African literature. He is joint General Editor of the Longman Literature in English Series.

David Russell is Associate Professor of English and Tutorial Fellow at the University of Oxford. He is the author of Tact: Aesthetic Liberalism and the Essay Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2017).