Browsing Auburn University Libraries by Subject "Middlemarch"
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George Henry Lewes, the Real Man of Science Behind George Eliot's Fictional Pedants
(2022-04-01)
This paper demonstrates that George Eliot drew on George Henry Lewes’s actual experience as an emerging scientist in her depiction of two fictional scholars, Edward Casaubon of Middlemarch and Proteus Merman, a lesser-known ...
"What do I think of glory?": On Middlemarch by George Eliot
(2022-04-01)
"What do I think of Middlemarch? What do I think of glory?" This is the famous reply Emily Dickinson wrote to her bookish cousins in 1873 after her first reading of George Eliot’s novel. Dickinson’s sentiments were also ...