{"title":"Epic-graphic Proportions in George Eliot’s Middlemarch","authors":"Amelia Hall","doi":"10.1353/sel.2020.0033","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article uses George Eliot’s Middlemarch to model a new strategy for reading chapter epigraphs, suggesting we understand them as shrunken, subsidiary structures subsumed within a vast novel. Focusing on questions of epigraphical size and scale reveals a multifaceted examination of gender in which canonical male authors are miniaturized and unattributed epigraphs express empathy for women who, like Dorothea, leave “no great name on the earth.” Epigraphs enable Middlemarch to construe problems of gender in terms of textual proportion and to translate these issues of proportion into an argument concerning the importance of the incrementally influential female life.","PeriodicalId":45835,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1500-1900","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sel.2020.0033","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:This article uses George Eliot’s Middlemarch to model a new strategy for reading chapter epigraphs, suggesting we understand them as shrunken, subsidiary structures subsumed within a vast novel. Focusing on questions of epigraphical size and scale reveals a multifaceted examination of gender in which canonical male authors are miniaturized and unattributed epigraphs express empathy for women who, like Dorothea, leave “no great name on the earth.” Epigraphs enable Middlemarch to construe problems of gender in terms of textual proportion and to translate these issues of proportion into an argument concerning the importance of the incrementally influential female life.
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SEL focuses on four fields of British literature in rotating, quarterly issues: English Renaissance, Tudor and Stuart Drama, Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and Nineteenth Century. The editors select learned, readable papers that contribute significantly to the understanding of British literature from 1500 to 1900. SEL is well known for thecommissioned omnibus review of recent studies in the field that is included in each issue. In a single volume, readers might find an argument for attributing a previously unknown work to Shakespeare or de-attributing a famous work from Milton, a study ofthe connections between class and genre in the Restoration Theater.
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