Middlemarch Reading Group: Week 3

Date: Monday 11 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 3: Politics 1: Inhertiance and Society 

Reading

Middlemarch, book 3 

Option Reading

Phoebe Poon, From Status to Contract: Inheritance and Succession in George Eliot’s Late Fiction 

Contact: mrinalini.wadhwa@all-souls.ox.ac.uk