内容简介
ItwasGeorgeEliot'sambitiontocreateaworldandportrayawholecommunity—tradespeople,middleclasses,countrygentry—intherisingfictionalprovincialtownofMiddlemarch,circa1830.Vastandcrowded,richinnarrativeironyandsuspense,Middlemarchisricherstillincharacterandinitssenseofhowindividualdestiniesareshapedbyandshapethecommunity.EditedwithanIntroductionandNotesbyRosemaryAshton
作者简介
MaryAnneEvanswasbornnearNuneatonon22November1819.SheadoptedthepseudonymGeorgeEliotwhenshebeganherwritingcareer.Inheryouthshewasheavilyinfluencedbyherevangelicalteachersbutshelaterbrokewithorthodoxreligion.AftershemovedtoCoventrywithherfatherin1841,sheundertookthetaskoftranslatingD.F.Strauss'scontroversialbookLifeofJesusCriticallyExamined(1846)forCharlesBray.Afterherfather'sdeathshemovedtoLondonandhelpedtoedittheradicaljournaltheWestminsterReviewfrom1851to1854.In1851shealsometthejournalistGeorgeHenryLewesand,despiteLewes'smarriage,theybecamepartnersfortherestofhislife.In1854LewesandEliotopenlysetuphometogether,ascandalousarrangementbythesocialstandardsoftheday.In1857EliotpublishedScenesfromClericalLifeinBlackwood'sMagazineandin1859hernovelAdamBedewaspublishedtogreatacclaimandestablishedherasabestsellingauthor.Herfirstattempttowritehermostfamousnovel,Middlemarch,endedinfailure.Abandoningit,shebeganashortnovellaentitledMissBrookewhicheventuallybecamepartofthefinalversionofMiddlemarch,whichwaspublishedseriallyin1871.Lewesdiedin1878and,in1880,EliotmarriedJohnWalterCross,anAmericanwhowastwentyyearsherjunior.GeorgeEliotdiedon22December1880andisburiedinHighgateCemeterynexttoLewes.
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