![]() ![]() For each of the weekly sessions (beginning with the second), we will primarily discuss the features, plot developments, and specific themes of the book-length installment at hand. Victorian readers of this 800-page work enjoyed and absorbed the story for months, discussing its gradual unfolding with friends and family and anticipating the turns each new installment would take.Įliot divided Middlemarch into eight “books” of approximately 110 pages each, and these installments naturally form the framework of the seminar readings. In fact, it was a success even before its full publication in 1872, since it was serialized in eight installments beginning the year before. ![]() George Eliot’s Middlemarch has been a popular and critical success since its publication in 1872. Other materials will be made available by email and brought to the seminar sessions.įor the first session, please read only the novel’s Prelude and Chapter One. Weekly discussions will be supplemented with slides and film clips. To celebrate the author’s bicentenary, this seminar explores George Eliot’s Victorian masterpiece Middlemarch in manageable weekly installments for serial reading and discussion-with no spoilers! The result is an engaging in-depth look at Eliot’s literary technique as well as her insights into culture, science, art, and psychology. A Newberry Library Adult Education Seminar ![]()
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