Reading Middlemarch is the most pleasurable self-own known to man. If you don't recognize yourself in Fred Vincy's inability to get his act together, or in poor old Casaubon's deep knowledge that he is unworthy of the task that he's set himself, or Arthur Brooke who is just Trying the Best He Can and doesn't seem to realize that it's not nearly enough--or worse yet, in Lydgate's inability to talk about the hard thing with his wife, or in Dorothea Brooke's desire to channel all that is St. Teresa in her towards someone else's big life project. And yet,
#17: George Eliot and the Home Epic
#17: George Eliot and the Home Epic
#17: George Eliot and the Home Epic
Reading Middlemarch is the most pleasurable self-own known to man. If you don't recognize yourself in Fred Vincy's inability to get his act together, or in poor old Casaubon's deep knowledge that he is unworthy of the task that he's set himself, or Arthur Brooke who is just Trying the Best He Can and doesn't seem to realize that it's not nearly enough--or worse yet, in Lydgate's inability to talk about the hard thing with his wife, or in Dorothea Brooke's desire to channel all that is St. Teresa in her towards someone else's big life project. And yet,