HUMS 172: Interpretations: George Eliot's "Middlemarch"

Monday 1:30pm-3:20pm

Fall 2024

Instructor: Ruth Yeazell

An intensive study of George Eliot’s  Middlemarch (1871-72)—a work she called a “home epic” and Virginia Woolf  declared “one of the few English novels for grown-up people.”   Our close reading of Middlemarch itself is framed by a brief selection from George Eliot’s essays and short fiction, as well as by a more extended study of some critical responses, both Victorian and modern.