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16 septembre 2021
- handle: 10670/1.paww4s
- 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, « 2. Sappho’s Apple », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.paww4s
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To step back from the last book of Middlemarch to the first. Eliot’s story opens with the general expectation among her friends and family that Dorothea will marry Sir James Chettam, the eligible and hearty if rather dim young baronet. This, of course, does not happen. Instead she becomes betrothed to Casaubon. But if Dorothea and Casaubon are mismatched, Dorothea and Sir James would have been just as ill-suited to one another, if in a different way, and surely everybody in the novel knows as...