tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post5422723307427977950..comments2024-03-21T07:37:30.475-04:00Comments on Light reading: Elegant accomplishmentsJenny Davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02295436498255927522noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6959297.post-6039394630387724222012-07-08T18:01:28.268-04:002012-07-08T18:01:28.268-04:00I am not sure this is quite the right term but the...I am not sure this is quite the right term but the good bits in Middlemarch are so compelling in part because they are so ponderous -- Austen would have managed to imply all of that paragraph in a sentence; yet something is gained by the amplification. (Perhaps the "why" and the "mamma" are the false notes in this passage; it might have been wise for her to write less like Thackeray and more like Dr. Johnson...)Zedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10623092831367861959noreply@blogger.com