Marxist Literary Criticism Applied to Middlemarch The Hungarian Marxist theorist, George Lukács, claims that literature can help the proletariat to gain access to the idea of society as a whole instead of just listening to the existing power of a society. ... To apply the Marxist literary theory to Middlemarch is therefore highly convenient because Eliot wants to deal with real life issues. ... He comes to Middlemarch as a reformer of medical practice. ... Pinion writes in his A George Eliot Companion that "quackery and excessive drug-prescription being common, Lydgate's policy ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Mary began to publish books under the pseudonym George Eliot, because "George was Mr. ... In Silas Marner, Irony set a foundation for George Eliot to build her themes on. ... Silas Marner is a great novel, but it is only one of many that George Eliot wrote. ... George Eliot was an English novelist, essayist, poet, short story writer and translator. ... This is also true about Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, which is considered "Eliot's finest achievement...

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• Grade Level: High School

"Don't let your pride get in the way of your relationships." " George Eliot, "Middlemarch" George Eliot's extensive saga, "Middlemarch," is about married couple, Rosamond and Lydgate. ... George Elliot manages to let the reader understand the complex relationship between the newly wed couple, as they face financial issues through the use of dialogue and third person omniscient, which thoroughly allows reader to see what Rosamond and Lydgate are individually thinking as they try to find a solution to their complex arguments....

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At the point in the novel when this passage was presented, George Eliot has established numerous ideals of English provincial life in the 1830's. In books I and II, George Eliot has introduced two main struggles or principles dealt with during this time period. ... Acknowledging the ideals of marriage within this Middlemarch society' aids in examining some of the changes in ideas that occur inside their culture. ... Eliot enables herself to critique the idea of Enlightenment individualism with the union of Dorothea and Casaubon. In Middlemarch, the couple either improves or weak...

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Her quiet reserve restored the dignity of the monarchy after the rakish ways of George IV, but she allowed advertisers to trade shamelessly on her image and product endorsements. ... In the following pages, I wish to highlight the characteristics, form and the revolutionary aspects of the Victorian Novel, along with a brief analysis on three very important Victorian writers - William Makepeace Thakeray, Charles Dickens and George Eliot( Mary Ann Evans). ... The novels of Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, and Thomas Hardy were read not merely by a literary elit...

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She reigned longer even than her grandfather, George III, during which Britain became the most powerful nation on Earth. ... George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) felt the need write about the ethical conflicts and social problems of the late Victorian Era. Two of her famous works, Adam Bede and Middlemarch, focus on the lives of the middle class. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Middlemarch by George Eliot inspired Eugenides to finish Middlesex because the character of Casaubon, the scholar who can never finish the book he is working on, which was a frightening example to him of what might happen if he didn't finish it, so he did. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Unlike the earlier romantic 19th century novels of Jane Austen whose characters such as Elizabeth Bennett lived happily ever after, Victorian novelist George Eliot, broke the tradition of the standard romantic novel by representing women in unhappy relationships and the reality and problems of the woman's role in life and their place in society, this is particularly evident in her realist novel Middlemarch. ...

• Word Count: 1599
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate