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1. www.bbc.com › culture › articleWhy Middlemarch is the greatest British novel - BBC

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   Dec 7, 2015 · George Eliot’s sprawling tale of provincial life has triumphed in BBC Culture’s poll of the greatest British novels as voted by the rest of the world. Michael Gorra explains why.

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3. www.bbc.com › culture › articleGeorge Eliot: The genius who scandalised society - BBC

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   Nov 19, 2019 · Eliot’s novels will always be her single greatest achievement, and they stand independent of the passion and pain that nourished them and marked her days.

4. www.newyorker.com › books › page-turnerWhat Makes Great Detective Fiction, According to T. S. Eliot

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   Feb 2, 2016 · One wonders what Eliot, who built his great poem around the Grail legend, would have made of “The Maltese Falcon,” with its cosmopolite eccentrics chasing after a shadowy MacGuffin with a...

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5. rsliterature.org › library-of-articles › whats-soWhat’s So Great About George Eliot? - Royal Society of ...

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   In Adam Bede, George Eliot wrote: ‘No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.’ Two hundred years after her birth, a panel of writers discuss Eliot’s literary legacy and her continued influence on contemporary writers, asking: what’s so great about George Eliot?

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   Oct 13, 2021 · Why Middlemarch still matters. Published 150 years ago, George Eliot’s epic humanist novel is the antidote to our witless online world. By Johanna Thomas-Corr. Nom de plume: Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Middlemarch was first published in eight five-shilling parts in 1871 and 1872.

7. www.britannica.com › topic › MiddlemarchMiddlemarch | Summary, Characters, Analysis, & Facts | Britannica

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   Oct 7, 2024 · Middlemarch, novel by George Eliot, first published in eight parts in 1871–72. It is considered to be Eliot’s masterpiece. The realist work is a study of every class of society in the town of Middlemarch, but the focus is on the thwarted idealism of Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate, both of whom marry disastrously.

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   Why did Eliot write a novel?

   • More than anyone else, Eliot was responsible for making the novel, a genre which had traditionally been read primarily for entertainment, into a vehicle for the serious expression of ideas. Few novelists can equal Eliot’s depth of intellect or breadth of learning.

   Analysis of George Eliot’s Novels - Literary Theory and Criticism

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   What books did George Eliot write?

   • Short Fiction: Scenes of Clerical Life, 1858. POETRY: The Spanish Gypsy, 1868; The Legend of Jubal and Other Poems, 1874. Nonfiction: The Impressions of Theophrastus Such, 1879; Essays of George Eliot, 1963 (Thomas Pinney, editor); The Journals of George Eliot, 1998 (Margaret Harris and Judith Johnston, editors).

   Analysis of George Eliot’s Novels - Literary Theory and Criticism

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   Is George Eliot a humanist novel?

   • In the 150 years since George Eliot’s great humanist novel was published, readers have been professing that it has made them more sympathetic, less judgemental, more enlarged as a person. It is, as Virginia Woolf famously (and gratifyingly) claimed, “one of the few English novels written for grown-up people”.

   Why Middlemarch still matters - New Statesman

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   Who is George Eliot?

   • He is the Mary Augusta Jordan Professor of English at Smith College. George Eliot’s sprawling tale of provincial life has triumphed in BBC Culture’s poll of the greatest British novels as voted by the rest of the world. Michael Gorra explains why.

   Why Middlemarch is the greatest British novel - BBC

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   What lessons did Eliot learn from his life?

   • As O’Shaughnessy says, one of the most important lessons to take from Eliot’s life is this: “To keep up one’s interest in the world and in people through knowledge, reading and study, and understanding, friendship and love”.

   George Eliot: The genius who scandalised society - BBC

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   When did George Eliot write Middlemarch?

   • Published 150 years ago, George Eliot’s epic humanist novel is the antidote to our witless online world. Nom de plume: Mary Ann Evans, who wrote as George Eliot. Middlemarch was first published in eight five-shilling parts in 1871 and 1872. Image by ANN RONAN PICTURES/PRINT COLLECTOR/GETTY IMAGES

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9. literariness.org › 2019/05/28 › analysis-of-georgeAnalysis of George Eliot’s Novels - Literary Theory and ...

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   May 28, 2019 · More than anyone else, Eliot was responsible for making the novel, a genre which had traditionally been read primarily for entertainment, into a vehicle for the serious expression of ideas. Few novelists can equal Eliot’s depth of intellect or breadth of learning.