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Across 19th Century, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Modern, and European — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Middlemarch by Kerry McSweeney.

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Apprenticeships The Bildungsroman from Goethe to Santayana

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Victorians — Arthur Pollard

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy Volume 1 — Thomas Hardy

The Literary Notebooks of Thomas Hardy Volume 1

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Marriage Question George Eliot’s Double Life — Clare Carlisle

The Marriage Question George Eliot’s Double Life

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Jane Austen: Emma — David Lodge

Jane Austen: Emma

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Elizabeth Gaskell — Angus Easson

Elizabeth Gaskell

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Inner Jefferson Portrait of a Grieving Optimist — Andrew Burstein

The Inner Jefferson Portrait of a Grieving Optimist

Andrew Burstein

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Dickens and Women — Michael Slater

Dickens and Women

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Searching for Jane Austen — Emily Auerbach

Searching for Jane Austen

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum — Kathryn Hughes

Victorians Undone Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Novel Pedagogy The Novel and Educational Publications in Victorian Britain — Liwen Zhang

Novel Pedagogy The Novel and Educational Publications in Victorian Britain

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The English Utilitarians V2 James Mill (1912) — Leslie Stephen

The English Utilitarians V2 James Mill (1912)

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë — Robert Miles

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Lady and Her Monsters A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece — Roseanne Montillo

The Lady and Her Monsters A Tale of Dissections, Real-Life Dr. Frankensteins, and the Creation of Mary Shelley’s Masterpiece

Roseanne Montillo

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Music of Verse Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry — Joseph Phelan

The Music of Verse Metrical Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Poetry

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Thomas Hardy Half a Londoner — Mark Ford

Thomas Hardy Half a Londoner

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895-1922 A Line of Her Own — Sarah Parker

Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry, 1895-1922 A Line of Her Own

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing — J. Taylor

Mastery and Slavery in Victorian Writing

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Jane Austen at Home A Biography — Lucy Worsley

Jane Austen at Home A Biography

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Byron’s Letters and Journals A New Selection — George Gordon Byron Baron Byron

Byron’s Letters and Journals A New Selection

George Gordon Byron Baron Byron

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Phantom Formations Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman — Marc Redfield

Phantom Formations Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Presence of God in the Works of William Wordsworth — Eliza Borkowska

The Presence of God in the Works of William Wordsworth

Eliza Borkowska

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Poems of Lord Byron — Jane Stabler

The Poems of Lord Byron

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

The Decay of Lying And Other Essays — Oscar Wilde

The Decay of Lying And Other Essays

Themes: 19th Century • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • Modern

Fans of Middlemarch by Kerry McSweeney will find 24 titles here, all united by 19th Century, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Modern. Authors represented include T. Jeffers, Arthur Pollard, Thomas Hardy, Clare Carlisle, and others.

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