Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century

Name: Middlemarch in the Twenty-First Century
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ISBN: 9780195169959

ISBN-10: 0195169956

ISBN-13: 9780195169959

Edition: 2006

Authors: Karen Chase

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Middlemarch is the prime example of George Eliot's dictum that "interpretations are illimitable," and in this collection of new essays Middlemarch is re-examined as an open text responsive to gaps and fissures, and as resistant to authority as it is to other fixed notions of identity, idealism, and gender. What does the novel omit, and how do the omissions shape what is there? How shall we understand the materiality of the text? What problems does it pose to adaptation? The novel's plasticity becomes a basis for investigation into the multiple forms of expressiveness, and a consideration of how we might plot the patterns linguistically, ideologically, even cinematically. New spaces emerge…

Book details

List price: $145.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/19/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 5.79" wide x 8.46" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Contributors



Introduction




What's Not in Middlemarch




Space, Movement, and Sexual Feeling in Middlemarch




The Materiality of Middlemarch




Dorothea's Lost Dog




Negotiating Middlemarch




A Conclusion in Which Almost Nothing Is Concluded: Middlemarch's "Finale"




Losing for Profit




Narrative Vision in Middlemarch: The Novel Compared with the BBC Television Adaptation



Further Reading


Index