George Eliot

Middlemarch (Annotated) George Eliot

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-This book contains a historical context, where past events or the study and narration of these events are examined. The historical context refers to the circumstances and incidents surrounding an event. 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 characteristics. Therefore, when analyzing events that took place tens, hundreds or thousands of years ago, it is essential to know the historical context to understand them. Otherwise, we would be analyzing and judging what happened in a totally different era with a current perspective. 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, the different ideological, moral and scientific perspectives of the time, become the central axis of the narrative,