![]() The first one-volume edition was published in 1874, and attracted large sales. During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 1871–72 the novel appeared in serial form. ![]() It is her seventh novel, begun in 1869 and then put aside during the final illness of Thornton Lewes, the son of her companion George Henry Lewes. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life is a novel by George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Anne Evans, later Marian Evans. The reconciliation of family and individual interests in Eliot’s fiction is the main focus of this essay, which offers fresh interpretations of 'Felix Holt', 'Middlemarch', and 'Daniel Deronda' in their theoretical and historical contexts.LibriVox recording of Middlemarch (version 2) by George Eliot. A legal bestseller in its time, 'Ancient Law' expounded a theory of social evolution centring on the idea that the 'movement of progressive societies has hitherto been … from Status to Contract.' Maine’s status-contract model provided a framework for his readers to view customs of inheritance and succession in light of a binary social discourse that presented family interests (expressed juridically in terms of “status”) in opposition to individual interests (expressed as “contract,” the epitome of non-familial legal relations). ![]() This article examines the intersections between jurisprudence and literature through a close reading of George Eliot’s last three novels in relation to Henry Sumner Maine’s 'Ancient Law: Its Connection With the Early History of Society, and Its Relation to Modern Ideas' (1861).
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