Literary Parade: Middlemarch in Five Short Stops

Field notes

The issue organizes Middlemarch into five labeled sections, with estimated reading times of two to five minutes and a six-minute summary at the top. Its contextual material covers the novel’s provincial setting, the 1832 Reform Act, George Eliot’s decision to combine two projects, and the book’s original serialization in eight parts between December 1871 and December 1872.