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Middlemarch is not only one of the greatest novels by George
Eliot but also one of the most popular and bulkiest novels in English
literature, with its richly-peopled story, multi-plot structure, and
outnumbering themes and arguments. The grandeur of Middlemarch has
been perhaps due to its intellectual powers to include major ideas of the
Victorian England, which also attracts contemporary readers as well, such
as the idea of reform and progress at the aftermath of Industrial
Revolution, the rise of science and scientific thought with its influence on
theology, the changing face of the new world despite the old, and the
overall prosperity of Victorian England greatly developing and reaching
to the one tenth of the world’s soil. George Eliot situates her novel within
such a complex scene of early 19th century and reflects the intermingled
developments of the time in the fictitious world of Middlemarch
community. Yet she not only reflects these discussions but also
participates in them intellectually in Middlemarch. Interested in Victorian
urge and relish on the ideas of reform and progress, this paper analyzes
George Eliot’s Middlemarch with a New Historicist look to be able to
grasp the idea of reform in the novel and evaluate it on political,
scientific, and social grounds.
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