English Literature / Unit 15 ENL 1415 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Middlemarch
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The idea
Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life, published in instalments in eighteen seventy-one and seventy-two, interweaves Dorothea Brooke's search for purpose and her marriage to the scholar Casaubon, the doctor Lydgate's ambitions, and others' lives. The anchor says it lifts the marriage plot to the level of lived life.
In practice
A town of intersecting lives.
Where people slip
The narrator generalizes about human nature.
Your place on the trail
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