The novel’s title character, we soon discover, is not actually the novel’s central concern. Subsequent “installments” will reflect the book and chapter divisions of the novel itself. The first session begins with a very brief portion of the novel (a single chapter) along with lecture and discussion regarding Eliot’s prose and expectations. George Eliot had initially planned to publish Adam Bede as a serial, and while it was ultimately published instead in three volumes, our seminar sessions will tackle readings of approximately 70-100 pages each week. This seminar employs the format of serial reading in order to explore the literary, cultural, and philosophical dimensions of a novel typically read too quickly or too carelessly. Please do not read the book’s introduction. – For the first session, please read only Chapter 1. – Other materials will be made available online and brought to the seminar sessions. Oxford World Classics, edited by Carol A. Seven sessions.Īdam Bede, by George Eliot. Weekly discussions will be supplemented with slides and film clips. Published in 1859 (twelve years before her celebrated Middlemarch) and widely acclaimed in its time, Adam Bede explores challenging issues of maturity, hypocrisy, sexuality, and the need for a humanistic view of religion, all performed in Eliot’s virtuosic prose. To celebrate George Eliot’s bicentennial year, this seminar presents the author’s first full-length novel in manageable weekly installments for serial reading and discussion-no spoilers.
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