Reading for Our Time
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Reading for Our Time

'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' Revisited

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Reading for Our Time

'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' Revisited

About this book

A masterclass in attentive reading that opens up brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels. Can reading Adam Bede and Middlemarch be justified in this time of climate change, financial meltdown and ineffective politicians? J. Hillis Miller shows how, to be read for today, they must be read slowly, closely and carefully, with much attention to linguistic detail and especially to figures of speech. By relating mistakes like Dorothea's about Casaubon to current affairs, Miller's 'readings for today' can help us to come to terms with our human, social and political situation and even inspire us to act to ameliorate it. Key Features: • The product of many years of reading, teaching and writing by this world-renowned critic• Supported by the abundant previous scholarship on these texts

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Information

Publisher
EUP
Year
2012
eBook ISBN
9780748646708
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
English Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. COVER
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword: Required Reading or “Some of Us, at Least”
  5. Prelude
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1 Realism Affirmed and Dismantled in Adam Bede
  8. Chapter 2 Reading Middlemarch Right for Today
  9. Chapter 3 Chapter Seventeen of Adam Bede: Truth-Telling Narration
  10. Chapter 4 Returning to Middlemarch Returning to Middlemarch: Interpretation as Naming and (Mis)Reading
  11. Coda
  12. Notes
  13. Index