Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.74.1.0039
K. Wales
The collective voice of the eponymous community, the voice of communis opinio, has been recognized by George Eliot’s critics as playing a key part in the polyphony of Middlemarch, and especially in relation to the presentation of the major characters. The focus of this article is on the presentation of this community in its own right as a stratified society with regional voices at its base: an aspect of the novel hitherto not studied in any detail. I argue that this community is significantly highlighted in chapter 71, which is a key chapter in the development of the plot and the fates of Lydgate and Bulstrode. By deconstructing this chapter, I will show how the progress and power of “common opinion” is artfully directed by the narrator in a series of six scenes.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.74.1.0049
A. Tedeschi
This article describes and discusses two George Eliot association copies now in New Zealand. The history of the books and their ownership is given. The first is Eliot’s copy of John “Elocution” Walker’s A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the English Language (1834). Today this is at Dunedin Public Libraries as part of the Alfred and Isabel Reed Collection. The second in private hands is a Bible printed in Cambridge at the Pitt Press by John W. Parker in 1837, initially published in 1781. Marginalia and their significance found within the volumes is presented.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.73.2.0134
Matthew Poland
Although it is noted in bibliographies and databases, the serialization of Middlemarch in the Australasian newspaper of Melbourne in 1872–73 has received little critical attention. This article makes a preliminary effort to redress this knowledge gap using a global media history approach anchored by a southern-hemispherical perspective, permitting this canonical British novel to be recontextualized within the flows of transnational circulation. So doing decenters Eurocentric forms of thinking about imperial literary culture and realist aesthetics. Unexpectedly, as a fragmented colonial newspaper serial, Middlemarch—a provincial novel at the center of modern scholarship about European realism and totality—generates a new cultural field in which to theorize global reception history, transimperial culture, and the dialectic between realism and its remediation in, and between, print forms.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.73.2.0078
Colonnese, Kastrinos
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed a need for new practices of asynchronous reading that generate community. For the University of Washington's Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Research Cluster's 150th Anniversary Middlemarch Symposium, we created a digital edition of Middlemarch through Manifold, a digital humanities tool for e-editions, designed to encourage a practice we call “coreading.” By using digital annotation tools to build open communities of inquiry and crowd-sourced forms of knowledge, this practice decenters traditional forms of scholarship. Coreading allows us to explore the attachments that we form with literature—the affective, the personal and interpersonal, and the intellectual. In our explication of the Manifold Middlemarch project, we discuss the successes and setbacks of this collaborative community engagement, considering the question of what community and collaboration look like under pandemic circumstances, how digital humanities 2.0 projects can help us respond, and how coreading works as a solution for connection in unconnected times.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.73.2.0110
Henry
This article provides a close reading of a passage in chapter 23 of Middlemarch, Fred's ride to the Houndsley horse fair, with particular attention to words such as “gay,” “determinate,” and “pleasure.”
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.73.2.0071
Joshi, Laporte
This article introduces the 150th Anniversary Online Symposium for Middlemarch hosted by the University of Washington's Graduate Research Cluster on May 21, 2021.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.73.2.0128
McCauley
When Dorothea Brooke imagines a utopian community, she imagines draining the land. This concern with irrigation becomes a point of confluence for otherwise divergent theories of political economy and property within the nineteenth century. Drainage reflects a common horror of uselessness—whether wasted lands or the quagmires of scholarship. Yet this confluence is not totalizing. Natural history offers a critique of drainage, and Eliot's own work is marked by two contrary theories of drainage: circulation that adds value or circulation that subtracts value. These concerns then become a point for considering the primary metaphor of literary studies: the field.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.73.2.0115
Dillane
The second last chapter of book 4 of Middlemarch is stylistically uneven, spatially squeezed, and full of ugly feelings. These features coalesce around an elaborate refusal of sympathy for Joshua Rigg. I suggest that the compulsive reiteration of his otherness, his fixed obtrusiveness and his superfluity, which results in a narrative insistence on distancing Rigg from Middlemarch and Middlemarch, points to an underlying sense of imperial dis-ease and anxiety about the business of empire. These ugly feelings can be traced back to Dorothea's reaction to her mother's jewellery in chapter 1 and to the longer history of imperial violence that provides the Brookes and Dorothea's son with a secure sense of entitlement.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.5325/georelioghlstud.73.2.0104
Star
This brief article examines the issue of “inconsistency” as introduced in the first chapter of Middlemarch and as it expands throughout the novel.
这篇短文探讨了《米德尔马奇》第一章中引入的“不一致”问题，并在整个小说中进行了扩展。
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