The last part surveys the novel’s tellingly uneven fate in literary history from contemporary reviews to feminist or post/modernist debates and beyond. La ambición, los entimientos y deseos erróneos, el abismo entre lo que se dice y lo que realmente se oculta. Points of discussion are the function of the prominent narrator figure and the web of complex metaphors used in constructing the fictional world, as well as strategies to elicit empathy for the characters and even a sense of community in the reader. Sinopsis de MIDDLEMARCH Quintaesencia de la novela victoriana, su obra -Mary Ann Evans (1819-1880)- traza con maestría los sutiles vaivenes que rigen los destinos de tres parejas. The second part introduces the concept of realism, which also figures in Eliot’s prose. These issues are then pursued through more specific themes - the ‘Woman Question’, the Great Reform Act, contemporary science - in the fictional world’s multi-strand narration. The first part traces how the novel’s preface introduces, on a metatextual level, the topic of time, of natural and human history and of history’s gendered representation. This chapter reads George Eliot’s novel as a classic text of nineteenth-century realism and one of the genre’s most complex manifestations.
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