Middlemarch
A Study of Provincial Life
About this book
Eliot’s epic of 19th century provincial social life, set in a fictitious Midlands town in the years 1830-32, has several interlocking storylines blended effortlessly together to form a fully coherent narrative. Its main themes are the status of women, social expectations and hypocrisy, religion, political reform and education. It has often been called the greatest novel in the English language.
Subjects
- adopted children
- bildungsromans
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- cities and towns in literature
- city and town life
- city and town life in literature
- coming of age
- domestic fiction
- eliot, george, 1819-1880
- england
- england, fiction
- england, in literature
- english
- english fiction, history and criticism, 19th century
- english fiction, women authors
- english language
- english literature
- fathers and daughters
- fiction
- fiction, coming of age
- fiction, family life
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, general
- fiction, historical
- long now manual for civilization
- manners and customs
- married people
- married people, fiction
- married women
- medicine in literature
- modern literature
- mœurs et coutumes
- older men
- readers
- reading level-grade 10
- reading level-grade 11
- reading level-grade 12
- reading level-grade 7
- reading level-grade 8
- reading level-grade 9
- romans, nouvelles
- scholars
- social life and customs
- social reformers
- text-books for foreigners
- triangles (interpersonal relations)
- vie urbaine
- women authors
- young women
- young women, fiction