Date: Monday 4 May
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 2: Religion 1: Comparative Mythography
Reading
Middlemarch, book 2
Optional
Eliot, 'A Word for the Germans'
Eliot, 'Translations and Translators'
Contact: mrinalini.wadhwa@all-souls.ox.ac.uk