{"product_id":"middlemarch-adam-roberts-9781800641594","title":"Middlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/em\u003e, George Eliot draws a character passionately absorbed by abstruse allusion and obscure epigraphs. Casaubon's obsession is a cautionary tale, but Adam Roberts nonetheless sees in him an invitation to take Eliot's use of epigraphy and allusion seriously, and this book is an attempt to do just that.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoberts considers the epigraph as a mirror that refracts the meaning of a text, and that thus carries important resonances for the way Eliot's novels generate their meanings. In this lively and provoking study, he tracks down those allusions and quotations that have hitherto gone unidentified by scholars, examining their relationship to the text in which they sit to unfurl a broader argument about the novel - both this novel, and the novel form itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiddlemarch: Epigraphs and Mirrors\u003c\/em\u003e is both a study of George Eliot and a meditation on the textuality of fiction. It is essential reading for specialists and students of George Eliot, the nineteenth century novel, and intertextuality. It will also richly reward anyone who has ever taken pleasure in \u003cem\u003eMiddlemarch\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adam Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1800641591\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800641594\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Open Book Publishers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 162\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Adam Roberts","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43944640053503,"sku":"9781800641594","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f5404e09-81a1-4fc4-bccd-0387cb35e366.jpg?v=1681504523","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/middlemarch-adam-roberts-9781800641594","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}