Romanticism or Realism?

Author: Julian Scott

December 30, 2025

This question occurred to me as I was coming to the end of the 19th century novel Middlemarch by George Eliot (the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans). As the characters’ lives and actions came to fruition I found myself thinking: would this person’s life really have ended like this (so happily), or would they have ended up in a pit of despair? Not that they all ended up living ‘happily ever [...]

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