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• W800704588 abstract "Rebecca Mead, The Road to Middlemarch (Text, 2014)It's only a question of time before the term 'bibliomemoir' finds a place in the dictionary. It will sit somewhere between biblioklept ('a book thief') and bibliophagist ('a devourer of books'). The definition has already been proposed: 'bibliomemoir, a memoir about the books one has read', with 'bibliomemoirist' coined to define the author.1In the last few months, I have read several bibliomemoirs. They seem to be a particularly popular sub-genre with New York writers, perhaps because their city is so well-endowed with publishing houses, libraries, bookshops and literary magazines. Joanne Rakoffwrote My Salinger Year (Random House, 2014); Phyllis Rose described her year of reading in a New York library in The Shelf: From LEQ to LES (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014). And now Rebecca Mead, one of the staffwriters for The New Yorker, lays claim to the title of bibliomemoirist with her intelligent and entertaining book, The Road to Middlemarch: My Life with George Eliot.Mead approaches this canonical nineteenth-century novel from the perspective of a passionate and responsive twenty-first-century reader. She is trained in the language of literary scholarship - she majored in English - but her working life has been spent outside academia, as a writer and a journalist. It is this fresh, educated perspective that makes her book such a pleasure to read. If you like reading Victorian fiction, particularly if you admire George Eliot's work, you will probably enjoy Rebecca Mead's bibliomemoir very much indeed.Text Publishing promotes The Road to Middlemarch as 'a sensitive work of deep reading and biography, for every reader of literature who cares about why we read books and how they read us'. This encompasses the disparate strands that Mead weaves into her text. There are sections of close reading and criticism of Middlemarch, combined with lengthy passages on George Eliot's life and times. These are blended with the memoir of bibliomemoir, personal elements of Mead's experience - from the time she first read Middlemarch 'when I was seventeen years old and still living in the seaside town where I spent my childhood' (1) through to the phases of her adult life (career, marriage and motherhood). Throughout the book, there is the passionate invocation of the power of reading:Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it's a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself; and when a reader is grasped and held by a book, reading does not feel like an escape from life so much as it feels like an urgent, crucial dimension of life itself. There are books that seem to comprehend us just as much as we understand them, or even more. …" @default.
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