Reading for Our Time: 'Adam Bede' and 'Middlemarch' Revisited

by J. Hillis Miller

A masterclass in attentive reading that opens up brilliant insights into two of George Eliot's novels. Can reading Adam Bede and Middlemarch be justified in this time of climate change, financial meltdown and ineffective politicians? J. Hillis Miller shows how, to be read for today, they must be read slowly, closely and carefully, with much attention to linguistic detail and especially to figures of speech. By relating mistakes like Dorothea's about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748647287
• ISBN13: 9780748647286
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher