Middlemarch | Topics for Further Study

  • Select a footnote in the Norton Critical Edition of Middlemarch on an historical person or event and conduct further research on this subject. Then write an essay on the passage in the novel which the footnote helps to elucidate, explaining how your research increases your understanding of the passage and its relevance to the novel as a whole.
  • Read about the Renaissance thinker Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614) and his cosmology (theory of the universe), then write a compare and contrast paper on him and Edward Casaubon. Conclude your paper by theorizing about how this...

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