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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Miller, Andrew H
• Anderson, Amanda
• Shaw, Harry E

Titel

Middlemarch: January in Lowick

Ist Teil von

• A Companion to George Eliot, 2013, p.153-165

Ort / Verlag

Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Online Books - All Titles (includes Withdrawn titles)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In Middlemarch, George Eliot frames enclosures saturated with significance and represents her characters, Dorothea not alone but above all, attracted to and interpreting that significance; intimating our equivocal presence in those enclosures, she engages us in analogous acts of absorptive interpretation. In this way the novel can glow with meaning and can hold out the promise not only that we will know but will be known. And yet, Eliot also commits her technical dexterity to disrupting that absorption and that promise, often quite violently. At Lowick, Eliot interrupts absorption by abruptly intruding dramatic speech on pages of modulated narration rendering Dorothea's thoughts. Elsewhere Eliot uses other techniques. Sometimes she sinks us in the events of one plot only to indicate with a glancing, cross‐cutting blow that our absorption has made us oblivious of momentous events elsewhere.