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Knowledge management practices on romantic display in George Eliot’s Middlemarch

Knowledge management practices on romantic display in George Eliot’s Middlemarch

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Chris Aldrich
Apr 10, 2024
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Knowledge management practices on romantic display in George Eliot’s Middlemarch
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Given that George Eliot had her own commonplace book, it’s fascinating but not surprising to see a section of prose about note taking and indexing practices in Middlemarch (set in 1829 to 1832 and published in 1871-1872) literally as the romance story is just beginning to brew. [Naturally a romance with index cards at its heart is just my cup of tea, n’cest pas?] Presently it’s not surprising to see the romance of an independent thinking woman stem out of an intellectual practice (dominated heavily by men at the time) that was fairly common in its day, but for it’s time such an incongruous juxtaposition may have been jarring to some readers.

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