George Eliot

Middlemarch (Annotated) George Eliot

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, which helps us understand this literary work. We must pay special attention to those events that especially influenced the world of culture and art and also to those events that were especially reflected in literature, in the life of its writer or that affected it. There are many examples in which historical events have shaped the content and forms of literature, as well as this has often been the best testimony to the importance of certain events throughout history. This context is formed by everything that, in some way, influences the event when it happens. A fact is always tied to its time: that is, to its period. If there is an essential novel in Victorian English literature, I think that would be "Middlemarch" by George Elliot, which was first published in December 1871 in monthly installments and probably constitutes the top work of this author. In "Middlemarch" - notice - practically nothing happens, and at the same time things do not stop happening: practically as in real life. If we wanted to summarize his argument, we could say that he tells the story of three very different couples, and that these three stories are interwoven with the chronicle of Middlemarch himself, a city of imaginary provinces. But at the same time, social changes, the process of modernization of Victorian England.