Date: Monday 25 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 provincial life.
Tea and biscuits provided!
Week 1: Literature and Intellectual History
Reading
Middlemarch, book 5
Optional Reading
Eliot on Wollstonecraft
Eliot on Antigone
Contact: mrinalini.wadhwa@all-souls.ox.ac.uk
