![]() Critics have noted this quality of Eliot's description, observing that Middlemarch's descriptive language typically exceeds its basic local function of creating what Roland Barthes called a "reality effect," possessing instead an excess of elements that ascend or ossify into symbolic significance rather than remaining on the denotative level of mere literal description. The described world of Middlemarch is distinguished by a surprising absence of objects that are just there, of details-especially details in descriptions of domestic interiors-that nestle in the descriptive prose solely to enhance the visibility of a fictional world, without rising to a symbolic or metaphoric plane. ![]() ![]() George Eliot's Middlemarch is unique among nineteenth-century British novels for its unusually light reliance on the modes of neutral, literal presentation that are supposed to characterize the realist novel. ![]()
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