Date: Monday 27 April
Time: 17:00-18:00
Venue: All Souls, Hovenden Room
The historicist tone of Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-2) has been commented on by readers from Virginia Woolf to Zadie Smith. This reading group seeks to explore the historical richness found in Eliot's study of provinicial life.
Tea and biscuits provided!
Week 1: Literature and Intellectual History
Reading
Middlemarch, prologue and book 1
Optional
Colin Kidd, The World of Mr. Casaubon, introduction
Contact: mrinalini.wadhwa@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
