Items in each study guide provide spoiler-free prompts for focusing on specific issues, moments, and even sentences that are significant not only for the installment at hand, but for subsequent points in the novel.Īfter consideration of Book One, read through the second serial reading guide and proceed to Book Two of the novel. These “enforced pauses,” as the novel’s original readers encountered them, offer the chance to absorb some of the dense matrix of plot, character, theme, and style that the novel establishes. At that point, stop and reconsider the questions and issues raised in the serial reading guide. Eliot’s original installments will naturally form the framework of these serial readings.īegin with the first part of the guide (for “Book One” of the novel, as it is indicated in all editions), then read only Book One. Victorian readers enjoyed and absorbed the novel one portion at a time, discussing the story’s gradual unfolding with friends and family and anticipating the turns each new installment would take. Middlemarch was first published from December 1871 through December of 1872, in monthly installments of approximately 110 pages each. This serial reading guide is not designed to be read all at once, but studied in parts, along with the corresponding parts of the novel. It can also help teachers bring a serial reading of this novel to students. This guide will help you read George Eliot’s Middlemarch in eight sessions.
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