Middlemarch by George Eliot | Resources

Middlemarch For Further Reading

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 Acts. It is an overview of the political and historical context in which these changes occurred.

Holcombe, Lee, Wives and Property: Reform of the Married Women's Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England, University of Toronto Press, 1982.

This important history of English common law focuses on the evolution of...
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