A Modernist Study in Middlemarch: A Multidimensional Approach toward the Novel

Emerged as a non-conformist representative of the Nineteenth-century era, George Eliot’s Middlemarch is considered to be among the best works of the England’s canon of literature, for enjoying both the entertaining didacticism and literary seriousness. Contrary to the social mannerism and literary conventions of the time, George Eliot revealed a genius image of reality in its modern sense of the word. The current article seeks to manifest the elements of Realism, Modernism and Feminism as Eliot’s major innovations by referring to Middlemarch, as her masterpiece. In so doing, one must analytically refer to the constant shifting narrative voices who interferes with subjective judgments and the undecidability of the gender agency along with the revelation of the central characters’ failures and flaws through a satiric, yet witty and sentimental lens in the novel are believed to be some of George Eliot’s novelties in Middlemarch

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Nineteenth-century , Middlemarch , Realism , George Eliot , Modernism , Feminism