However, his education has not included tact and politicking, skills necessary in a small town but are seen by Lydgate as below him, the brilliant doctor.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit .ĪpFiles were volume corrected to be more consistent. He regards the residents of Middlemarch with a certain amount of contempt stemming from his belief that the townspeople are backwards and uninteresting. In contrast, Lydgate at times arrogantly flaunts his knowledge, making enemies with his fellow physicians. Casaubon is afraid to publish because he believes that he must write a work that is utterly above criticism.

Both reflected, in different ways, their author’s formidable intellect, yet neither enjoyed the success of her earlier work. In both cases, however, the young wives' expectations of their husbands intellects are not reflected in reality.ĭespite extreme erudition, Mr. Freed from material anxiety, in the 1860s she embarked on two ambitious works of fiction: Romola (1863), a historical novel set in 14th-century Florence, and the highly political Felix Holt, the Radical (1866). A similar dynamic is present in Dorothea and Casaubon's relationship, with Dorothea revering her new husband's intellect and eloquence.

Rosamond initially admires Lydgate for his exotic education, and his intellect. Rosamond Vincy's finishing school education is a foil to Dorothea Brooke's religiously-motivated quest for knowledge. The book examines the role of education in the lives of the characters and how such education and study has affected the characters. LibriVox recording of Middlemarch by George Eliot

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