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16 septembre 2021
- handle: 10670/1.gxq4i7
- isbn: 9781800641587
- eisbn: 9791036570544
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Middlemarch George Eliot epigraph Casaubon Adam Roberts Literature, British Isles LIT000000 LIT004010 DS DSBSujets proches
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Adam Roberts, « 4. Hypocrisy and the Judgment of Men », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.gxq4i7
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The middleness of Middlemarch is a moral as well as an existential quantity, a matter of ethics as both mediated and medial. The novel’s twinned mirrors situate questions of honesty or mendacity, and Eliot’s characters middle themselves somewhere between moral puritanism on the one hand—Dorothea’s over-identification with St Theresa, or Antigone, we might say—and active malignancy on the other (the melodramatic blackmailing villainy of John Raffles, say). And this brings me to another epigrap...