middlemarch chapter epigraphs

Epigraphs, otherwise known as quotations or “mottoes”, were a common literary device of George Eliot and her contemporaries They were used, in part, to help the reader transition into the world of the novel by giving them something familiar at the start

throughout Middlemarch Three of these four epigraphs, used in Middlemarch for chapters 12, 21 and 65, appear in Eliot's Commonplace Book among a group 

and one epigraph for each of the 70 chapters, of which three contain an additional second that precedes chapter 57 of Middlemarch demonstrates that auto-

Middlemarch contains two chapter epigraphs from the Bible Both quotations underscore the actions of the pri- mary characters in those chapters The first 

Middlemarch was not what George Eliot originally conceived epigraphs and suspenses A plot is a in Chapter 10 links 'Middlemarch' with 'Miss Brooke'