Book I: Miss Brooke

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Book I: Miss Brooke is the opening section of George Eliot’s novel Middlemarch, focusing on the idealistic young heroine Dorothea Brooke and establishing the social and moral landscape of the story.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book section
novel opening
author George Eliot
centralTheme idealism
marriage
religious aspiration
self-sacrifice
social expectations
chronologicalPosition first book of Middlemarch
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
depicts provincial English society in the early 19th century
featuresCharacter Celia Brooke
Dorothea Brooke
Edward Casaubon
Mr. Brooke
Mrs. Cadwallader
Sir James Chettam
Tantripp
firstPublicationYear 1871
focusesOnCharacter Dorothea Brooke
genre Victorian novel section
realist fiction
hasNarrator omniscient third-person narrator
hasWorkIn English literature canon
introducesPlotElement Dorothea Brooke’s engagement to Edward Casaubon
Sir James Chettam’s interest in Dorothea Brooke
language English
literaryMovement Victorian literature
narrativeRole establishes moral landscape
establishes social context
exposition
introduction of main characters
originalMedium serial publication
originalPublisher William Blackwood and Sons
partOf Middlemarch
publishedIn Middlemarch
surface form: Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
relatedWork Book II: Old and Young
Book III: Waiting for Death
setsToneFor Middlemarch
setting Brooke estate
Middlemarch
Tipton Grange
structure divided into chapters
timePeriodDepicted early 1830s
titleCharacter Dorothea Brooke

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Middlemarch hasPart Book I: Miss Brooke
Book VII: Two Temptations relatedWork Book I: Miss Brooke