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Definition of Setting
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or it can be an imagined... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the city of New York, or... read full definition
Setting is where and when a story or scene takes place. The where can be a real place like the... read full definition
Setting
Explanation and Analysis:
Middlemarch is named after its setting, as it takes place in Middlemarch, a fictional town in the Midlands, England, in the years 1829-32. The novel is set right when the 1832 Reform Act is being heavily debated (and this debate features heavily in the story). The 1832 Reform Act expanded the population of eligible voters in the country and changed aspects of the parliamentary system in order to make it more democratic, a progressive change that the conservative and small-minded townspeople of Middlemarch do not support.
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