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Reading for our time : 'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' revisited /

A masterclass in attentive reading that opens up brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels. Can reading Adam Bede and Middlemarch be justified in this time of climate change, financial meltdown and ineffective politicians? J. Hillis Miller shows how, to be read for today, they must b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Miller, J. Hillis (Joseph Hillis), 1928-2021
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • COVER; Copyright; Contents; Foreword: Required Reading or "Some of Us, at Least"; Prelude; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Realism Affirmed and Dismantled in Adam Bede; Chapter 2 Reading Middlemarch Right for Today; Chapter 3 Chapter Seventeen of Adam Bede: Truth-Telling Narration; Chapter 4 Returning to Middlemarch Returning to Middlemarch: Interpretation as Naming and (Mis)Reading; Coda; Notes; Index.