The literary 'middle ground', once dismissed by academia as insignificant, is the site of powerful anxieties about cultural authority that continue to this day. In short, the middlebrow matters. These essays examine the prejudices & aspirations at work in the 'battle of the brows', & show that cultural value is always relative & situational. ...

Dorothea is beautiful & rebellious & has married the wrong man. Lydgate is an ambitious doctor & has married the wrong woman. They long to make a positive difference in the world. But they & other inhabitants of Middlemarch, must struggle to reconcile themselves to their fates & find their places in the world. ...

Dorothea Brooke is a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfillment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar Casaubon; the tactless Dr Lydgate's marriage to the spendthrift beauty Rosamund & pioneering medical methods threaten to undermine his career; &, Bulstrode hides scandalous crimes from his past. ...

A BBC dramatisation of George Eliot's classic novel about the lives & loves of a group of people living on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution in a small town named Middlemarch. These include young Doctor Lydgate (Douglas Hodge), who arrives at Middlemarch hospital full of idealism & determined to do good works; Dorothea Brooke (Juliet Aubrey), who becomes attracted to the scholarly Edward Casaubon (Patrick Malahide) & then finds herself trapped in an ill-fated marriage; & Will Ladislaw (Rufus Sewell), a young lad who awakens Dorothea's repressed passion & thereby changes the course of her life. ...

An analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke & Dr Tertius Lydgate. This title

Includes:: a host of other paradigm characters who illuminate the condition of English life in the mid-nineteenth century.

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