Dorothea’s “Resartus” and the Palingenetic Impulse of Middlemarch

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Abstract There has been little understanding of Middlemarch’s important relationship to Sartor Resartus—namely, the artistic similarity in character development between Dorothea and Teufelsdröckh. This article redresses this. Originally published in 1978, this is the third in an occasional series on Critical and Scholarly Reflections of the Past on George Eliot (see William Baker on “David Daiches on Middlemarch: 1963,” in GE–GHLS, vol. 74, no. 1, and Joseph Wiesenfarth on “Middlemarch: The Myth of the Hero” in GE–GHLS, vol. 75, no. 2).