TY - BOOK AU - Eliot, George AU - Carroll, David, ed. TI - Middlemarch T2 - Oxford World's Classics SN - 0192834029 U1 - 823.8 PY - 1998/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - English Literature KW - English Fiction KW - England KW - Young women KW - City and town life KW - Married people KW - Manners and customs KW - Social reformers KW - Domestic fiction KW - Triangles (Interpersonal relations) N1 - With an introduction by Felicia Bonaparte N2 - Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein ER -