Tag: Middlemarch

  • On Goldstein’s Novels of Ideas: George Eliot’s Middlemarch

    On Goldstein’s Novels of Ideas: George Eliot’s Middlemarch

    This piece continues a series of reviews highlighting highlighting philosopher-novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s list of the best “novels of ideas”. George Eliot’s Middlemarch was the second entry on her list. Reviewed in this essay: Middlemarch, George Eliot. Penguin Classics, 2002 (Originally published: 1871-1872 (with the first single volume set appearing in 1874 and further revisions…