Beer, Gillian, Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot, and Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Cambridge University Press, 2000.
This synthesis of nineteenth-century intellectual thought and art traces the effects of Darwin's evolutionary narrative on diverse texts, both fictional and scientific. Chapter 5 is specifically on Middlemarch.
Cox, Gary W., Randall Calvert, and Thrainn Eggertsson, The Efficient Secret: The Cabinet and the Development of Political Parties in Victorian England, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
This analysis of institutional changes in parliamentary government in nineteenth-century England concentrates on the period between the first and third Reform.....
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