Articles

  1. Collection Chat: The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones

  2. Transforming Middlemarch

    What goes into turning a literary classic like Middlemarch into popular TV drama? That was the question that inspired an interdisciplinary team of researchers based at De Montfort University Leicester who have created what is believed to be the first genetic edition of a screen adaptation. The project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research […]

  3. Mindfulness and Middlemarch

    The equivalence of Middlemarch with any city or town in the 21st century is worth pondering. Eliot constructed an intricate representation of a town in 1830s society, enabling readers to explore that world through the perspectives of different individuals. So much of Middlemarch is equivalent to our own context: a world in the midst of […]

  4. Modern Middlemarch – why is Middlemarch important now?

    How relevant is a story set almost 200 years ago in a provincial town in the Midlands? What, if anything, can that world tell us about ours? In our recent experience it seems like everything has changed. The coronavirus pandemic has constrained almost all aspects of our experience, there is war and threat abroad, financial […]

  5. Why read Middlemarch?

    Those that have read and loved Middlemarch are changed by it. It slowly unfolds and unwraps, revealing the pitfalls of self-centredness and the capacity for ordinary lives in ordinary places to be the catalyst for kindness.  At a little over 900 pages, it is a work of literature that might, on first glance, make the […]