English, Department of
Date of this Version
1994
Document Type
Article
Citation
The George Eliot Review 25 (1994)
Abstract
If every dog has its day, perhaps every novel has its year and if so this is the year of Middlemarch.
I looked forward to the television production with some misgivings, feeling that it would be impossible for the immense depth and scope of the novel to be adequately conveyed in a few hours of viewing. Adam Bede had been, I thought, entirely unsuccessful, except on a superficial level as a pretty costumed story. The profundity of Middlemarch would not benefit from such treatment. In the end, however, I felt that justice had to a large extent been done, due to the allowance of adequate time, though I could have wished it longer, and in particular to skillful casting, which brought George Eliot's characters to life in a way which must have led many viewers to read the novel, and to find the joy of the many layers of subtle thought and characterization missing from the screen.
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