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Article: Eliot's Middlemarch.(George Eliot)(Brief Article)
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- The Explicator
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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In chapter 7 of George Eliot's Middlemarch, Dorothea and Celia, Mr. Brooke and Mr. Casaubon discuss music. Eliot's use of music has been well examined, but a factual allusion in this premarital discussion reveals a predictive fact about Dorothea and her future husband that has not been fully analyzed. Dorothea observes that Casaubon is not fond of the piano or of "domestic music" (60) and discloses that "there is only an old harpsichord at Lowick, and it is covered with books" (60). This instrument, from the age of the Baroque rather than the modern, makes a neat allusion to Casaubon's intellectual place among fellow scholars. He no more belongs to the contemporary world ...
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