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In Middlemarch, George Eliot’s narrative focuses on the way her characters experience their physical presence in the world. Research is based on George Henry Lewes’s findings that “the processes of the nervous system both affect and are affected by human thought and action” (Problems of Life and Mind, II, 459). The idea of a non-rational, atomistic basis for human behavior can explain narrative endings of some main characters in the novel, as they make ad hoc decisions based on their neural sensations. The aesthetic of organic realism Eliot develops at the time of writing Middlemarch is based on an experiential truth found in the material world at the molecular level of the human body’s nerve tissue. |
