Middlemarch | Melodie Monahan

Monahan has a Ph.D. in English and operates an editing service, The Inkwell Works. In the following essay, Monahan explores how Eliot's parable of the pier glass explains the limitation of characters' points of view and implies those limitations can be surpassed.

Melodie Monahan

Monahan has a Ph.D. in English and operates an editing service, The Inkwell Works. In the following essay, Monahan explores how Eliot's parable of the pier glass explains the limitation of characters' points of view and implies those limitations can be surpassed.

George Eliot's Middlemarch has as its title the name of a fictional town in the English Midlands; the novel presents a picture of provincial life during a little less than three years, from September 30, 1829, to May 1832. This broad subject is narrowed by Eliot's focus on...

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