Fall 2026
T 1:30pm-3:25pm
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.