Middlemarch - Kerry (New York University at La Pietra and Syracuse University McSweeney - Bog

First published in 1984. The intellectual, religious and aesthetic background to Middlemarch are fully examined, with particular attention paid to Eliot¿s key doctrines of fellow-feeling and the humanistic economy of salvation. Professor McSweeney also provides fresh and thought-provoking discussions of the role of the omniscient narrator, and of character and characterisation. This title will be of interest to students of literature.