Among the most impressive achievements of Victorian literature is the large-scale social-anatomy novel. George Eliot's ________(1871-1872) is a distinguished instance in a group that includes Thackeray's Vanity Fair, Dickens' Bleak House, Mrs. Gaskell's Wives and Daughters and Trollope's The Way We Live Now.
Middlemarch
根据题目中的时间1871-1872可以确定，是艾略特在1872年出版的《米德尔马契》。