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By Audrey Braccio - April 29, 2002

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In George Eliot's novel Middlemarch, each character struggles to reconcile his desires with the realities of his life. This struggle often leads to an imaginative construction of reality in the "fellowship of illusion." In this novel, the characters of Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate share a similar form of imagination, both constructing in…

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