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Mar 29, 2019 · Books. Middlemarch. George Eliot. Oxford University Press, Mar 29, 2019 - Fiction - 864 pages. 'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts' The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English, Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832.
Middlemarch Summary. Dorothea and Celia are two Middlemarch sister of marriageable age. Dorothea chooses Casaubon, a dried-up old scholar, for her husband, much to everyone's dismay. Celia, more sensible, chooses Sir James Chettam, a local nobleman who wanted to marry Dorothea, before she turned him down.
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Middlemarch was a commercial success, and praise was unanimous. The Telegraph reported it “almost profane to speak of ordinary novels in the same breath with George Eliot’s” and there were favourable reviews by the Edinburgh Review, the Quarterly, the Fortnightly, the Spectator, and the Athenaeum (Haight, p. 444).
Middlemarch is set during a highly tumultuous time in English history, when dramatic developments in politics, science, and industrialization were having a major impact on the country. In the novel, “reform” has both a specific meaning and a more general one: specifically, it refers to the push for parliamentary reform that centered around the Reform Act of 1832.
As Celia bent over the paper, Dorothea put her cheek against her sister's arm caressingly. Celia understood the action. Dorothea saw that she had been in the wrong, and Celia pardoned her. Since they could remember, there had been a mixture of criticism and awe in the attitude of Celia's mind towards her elder sister.
Religion plays a huge role in Eliot’s novels, from Romola, which is set in the religious turmoil of Renaissance Florence, through her remarkable focus on Judaism in Daniel Deronda, and to the politics of Catholic emancipation in novels like Felix Holt and Middlemarch. Always, however, Eliot’s central point about religion remains consistent.
