Middlemarch (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: George Eliot
- First Published: 1871
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Setting: England
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: Philosophy or philosophers, Tradition, Power, personal or social, Love or romance, Nineteenth century, Marriage, Prejudices or antipathies, Villages, Doctors, Manners or customs, Social life, England or English people, Small-town life, Ambition, Idealism, Money, Orphans or orphanages, Gossip, Naivete, Debtors or creditors
- Locales: England
Characters Discussed
Dorothea “Dodo” Brooke, the sensitive and well-bred heroine, who, in her desire to devote herself to something meaningful, marries an arid clerical scholar, Edward Casaubon. After Casaubon’s death, Dorothea, against the advice of friends and family, marries Will Ladislaw, an impulsive artist anad political thinker. Dorothea also befriends the progressive young doctor of Middlemarch, Tertius Lydgate.
The Reverend Edward Casaubon, the clergyman at Lowick, near Middlemarch. Casaubon is a gloomy, severe, unimaginative, and unsuccessful scholar who...
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