Edward Casaubon

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He said he should prefer not to know the sources of the Nile, and that there should be some unknown regions preserved as hunting-grounds for the poetic imagination.

George Eliot

Middlemarch

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Topic

Disenchanted world Nile River Imagination

Speaker

Edward Casaubon

Author

George Eliot

Source

Middlemarch

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Eliot, George. Middlemarch. William Edinburgh/London: Blackwood and Sons, 1871–1872, bk. 1, ch. 9.

Current Citation

Eliot, George. Middlemarch, edited by Rosemary Ashton. Penguin Classics, 2003, bk. 1, ch. 9.