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008			140327s2014 nyu b 000 0deng
010			_a2013011477
020			_a9780307984760
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPR4662 _b.M43 2014
082	0	0	_a823 MEA
100	1		_aMead, Rebecca
245	1	0	_aMy life in Middlemarch _c/ Rebecca Mead.
250			_aFirst edition.
300			_a293 pages _c; 22 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-293).
505	0		_aMiss Brooke -- Old and young -- Waiting for death -- Three love problems -- The dead hand -- The widow and the wife -- Two temptations -- Sunrise and sunset.
520			_aPart literary criticism, part biography, and part memoir, this extremely creative book charts the many ways in which George Eliot's Middlemarch has shaped the life of Mead , who came across the novel for the first time when she was a teenager studying for her university entrance examinations during the 1980s. Like Eliot's Dorothea, Mead yearned to escape her provincial surroundings in the southwest of England for the more sophisticated, intellectually satisfying life of the city. The first in her family to attend college, Mead went on to Oxford, studied journalism, and eventually became a staff writer for The New Yorker. Throughout these experiences, Middlemarch remained a constant fixture in her life. Mead returned to the novel again and again, realizing new insights and nuances as she grew and matured. Through this literary journey, she discovers that provincialism is not only a matter of geography but also a state of mind. More memoirist than literary critic, Mead demonstrates through her own story how literature can change and transform lives. For this reason, even the reader who has never heard of George Eliot will find Mead's crisp, exacting prose absorbing and thought-provoking.
600	1	0	_aEliot, George _d, 1819-1880
600	1	0	_aMead, Rebecca
650		0	_aCreation (Literary, artistic etc.)
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