How you explore Middlemarch on Literah
The cast, the places, the objects, the plot, and the author’s own words — each one a card in a feed you scroll on your phone. One at a time, at your pace, in any order you like.
- Built for your phone. Literah is designed for mobile, so your worlds travel with you. On a laptop it shows a QR code to carry the world to your phone.
- A feed, not a wall of text. 48 characters, 20 places, 20 objects and 7 plot beats, each its own card with its own illustration.
- The author’s own words. 35 passages of Middlemarch sit in the feed verbatim, exactly as George Eliot wrote them, each with a short reading of what it is doing. The map is ours; the prose is always the book’s.
- The same scroll, a better world. The gesture you already give away to feeds, spent on George Eliot instead.
The Middlemarch feed, as it appears in your mobile
The plot of Middlemarch
The story beat by beat, as Literah maps it.
- Dorothea and the Mistake
- Rome and the Young Lydgate
- Featherstone, Fred, and the Pier-Glass
- The Dead Hand
- Lydgate's Debt and Rosamond's Resistance
- Bulstrode and the Scandal
- Dorothea's Dark Night and the Resolutions
The author's pen in Middlemarch
The passages themselves, George Eliot's own words, as Literah maps it.
- Grandeur And Meanness Of Opportunity
- Beauty In Plain Dressch. 1
- Dorothea and Lofty Greatnessch. 1
- Dorothea and the Emeraldsch. 1
- Dorothea and Mr. Casaubonch. 2
- Scholarly And Uninspiredch. 5
- The Wife He Neededch. 5
- A Soul Never Flyingch. 5
- Mary for Their Wifech. 9
- Lydgate Regarded Himself a Failurech. 9
- Lydgate a Successful Manch. 9
- The Growing Good of the Worldch. 9
- Faith In A Whole Miraclech. 12
- The Imagination of Researchch. 15
- Fever Instead of Marriagech. 15
- The Flower of Mrs. Lemon's Schoolch. 16
- Lydgate's Safe Admirationch. 16
- What Painting Cannot Catchch. 19
- Dorothea's Self Accusing Desolationch. 20
- Mary’s Condition for Fredch. 25
The characters of Middlemarch
Who is who, as Literah maps it.
- Dorothea Brooke / Mrs. Casaubonmajor
- Edward Casaubonmajor
- Will Ladislawmajor
- Tertius Lydgatemajor
- Rosamond Vincy / Mrs. Lydgatemajor
- Fred Vincymajor
- Mary Garthmajor
- Nicholas Bulstrodemajor
- Celia Brooke / Lady Chettamsupporting
- Mr. Brookesupporting
- Sir James Chettamsupporting
- Mrs. Cadwalladersupporting
- Mr. Cadwalladerminor
- Caleb Garthsupporting
- Susan Garthsupporting
- Peter Featherstonesupporting
The locations in Middlemarch
Where it happens, as Literah maps it.
- Tipton Grangecountry house
- Middlemarchprovincial town
- Lowick Manorestate house
- Yew-tree Walkestate walk
- Freshitt Hallestate house
- Stone Courtestate house
- Lydgate’s house in Lowick Gatehouse
- Romecity
- Vincy family hometown house
- Garth family homehouse
- New Hospital / Fever Hospitalmedical institution
- St. Botolph’schurch
- The Shrubshouse
- The Bankfinancial institution
The core concepts in Middlemarch
What the book keeps returning to, as Literah maps it.
- Women’s vocation without a public form
- Idealism meets institutions
- Egoism and partial vision
- Marriage as misreading
- Money as moral pressure
- Reputation versus truth
- Work as moral formation
- Sympathy as moral knowledge
The objects of note in Middlemarch
The things that carry meaning, as Literah maps it.
- Brooke jewels
- Emerald ring and bracelet
- Dorothea’s cottage plans
- Casaubon’s papers
- The Key to All Mythologies
- Casaubon’s codicil
- Mr. Brooke’s documents
- The Pioneer
- Featherstone’s wills
- Featherstone’s money and keys
- Gold-headed cane
- Fred Vincy’s debt note
- Lydgate’s debts and household bills
- Lydgate’s medical instruments and books
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