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In George Eliot’s masterpiece of 19th century realism, characters are confronted with the limits of their individual capacities and visions.
Our national life is exciting, dramatic, and unpredictable. Why don't more Canadian novelists write about it?
Eliot invites the reader in “Middlemarch” to meet her characters: like them, dislike them, and move around with them ever altering your perspectives.
THE WORLD OF MIDDLEMARCH An examination of timelessness of George Eliot’s ‘Study of Provincial Life’, with particular reference to the ‘Three Lo...
Digital humanities But despite data science’s exciting possibilities, plenty of other academics object to it I T ALL STARTED with a preposition. In 1941 Father Roberto Busa, a Roman Catholic priest, started noting down as many uses of the word “in” as he could find in the Latin work of Thomas Aquinas, a medieval theologian and saint. Eight years and 10,000 handwritten cards later he completed his linguistic analysis of Aquinas’s “interiority”—his introspective faith—at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University. By then he had a suspicion that his work could be done far more eff...