Archive - Closely Reading

the idealistic in the real

Week 5 | analyzing week four and getting into our next chapters

15 hrs ago •

haley larsen, phd

good Middlemarch society...

Week 4 | analyzing week three and getting into our next chapters

Jun 16 •

haley larsen, phd

the girl's vision of a possible future for herself to which she looked forward with trembling hope...

Week 3 | analyzing week two and getting into our next chapters

Jun 9 •

haley larsen, phd

a busy month with so much goodness in it!

Jun 6 •

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Middlemarch FAQ

questions from our read-a-long, posed by readers and answered by me

Jun 2 •

haley larsen, phd

theresa's passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life

Week 2 | analyzing week one and getting into our next chapters

Jun 2 •

haley larsen, phd

May 2025

welcome to Middlemarch

Week 1 | The prelude, chapter 1, and getting into a very big book

May 26 •

haley larsen, phd

getting into (and staying with) a big book

8 tips for reading big, daunting, and sometimes downright *boring* books

May 25 •

haley larsen, phd

answering the proust questionnaire

I turned 36 yesterday, so I answered 36 questions from the famous editorial questionnaire

May 23 •

haley larsen, phd

a tiny dispatch from me after a busy week

May 17 •

haley larsen, phd

"it is such a rough, ungainly thing"

a short, scholarly argument about Yonnondio and Life in the Iron-Mills

May 14 •

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"Reader, it was not to have ended here"

Analyzing the final chapters of Yonnondio

May 12 •

haley larsen, phd

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