George Eliot and Middleness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21485461 |
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| Authors | Georges Letissier (0009-0006-7697-5754, VicRoads, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 100 Automne |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0220-5610 • E-ISSN: 2271-6149 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/132r8 |
| OpenAlex | W4406314988 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Midway is the realist novelist’s position.(Philip Davis 388)George Eliot came from the Midlands, more precisely Warwickshire, where she situated most of her best-known novels, except Romola and Daniel Deronda. In many respects Middlemarch epitomises the polysemy intrinsic to ‘middleness’ (Hollington). ‘Middleness’ is also an eminently Eliotian concept in so far as it pushes the reader to think different things at the same time. The English word ‘middle’ overlaps with the French milieu and th
| Highly cited | No |
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