IDENTITY
Middlemarch
Literature
Work Summary
Middlemarch by George Eliot is a novel set in a provincial English community and following several interconnected lives, especially those of Dorothea Brooke and the doctor Tertius Lydgate. It examines marriage, vocation, reform, intellectual aspiration, money and the ways individual ambitions are constrained or transformed by social relationships.
Evidence Summary
He says Eliot analyzes like Balzac or Zola, but English situations and with an English feeling.
Direct comparison of literary method across Eliot, Balzac and Zola.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
George Eliot
Work
Middlemarch
Years / Period
15 Feb 1883
Van Gogh Relation
Read, Compared / Connected, Discussed / Commented On
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
15 Feb 1883 — Letter 316
Compared / Connected · Reading / evaluated
Van Gogh says, 'I'm reading Eliot, Middlemarch.'
Response: He says Eliot analyzes like Balzac or Zola, but English situations and with an English feeling.
Connection: Direct comparison of literary method across Eliot, Balzac and Zola.
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