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dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Adam
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-15T09:37:06Z
dc.date.available2021-04-15T09:37:06Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47853
dc.description.abstract"In Middlemarch, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon’s obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot’s use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that. Roberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning of a text, and that thus carries important resonances for the way Eliot’s novels generate their meanings. In this lively and provoking study, he tracks down those allusions and quotations that have hitherto gone unidentified by scholars, examining their relationship to the text in which they sit to unfurl a broader argument about the novel – both this novel, and the novel form itself. Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors is both a study of George Eliot and a meditation on the textuality of fiction. It is essential reading for specialists and students of George Eliot, the nineteenth century novel, and intertextuality. It will also richly reward anyone who has ever taken pleasure in Middlemarch."en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studiesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900en_US
dc.subject.otherMiddlemarch; George Eliot; epigraph; Casaubon; Adam Robertsen_US
dc.titleMiddlemarchen_US
dc.title.alternativeEpigraphs and Mirrorsen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.11647/OBP.0249en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy23117811-c361-47b4-8b76-2c9b160c9a8ben_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800641587en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800641594en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800641617en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800641624en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781800641631en_US
oapen.collectionScholarLeden_US
oapen.pages160en_US


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