The best-known and most autobiographical of George Eliot’s novels is now available as a Norton Critical Edition. Preface
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The Text of The Mill on the Floss
1(424)
Backgrounds and Contemporary Reactions
425(44)
Backgrounds
427(14)
Excerpts from Letters
427(7)
Brother and Sister
434(7)
George Eloit
Contemporary Reactions
441(28)
From Spectator, April 7, 1860
441(3)
From Saturday Review, April 14, 1860
444(4)
Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton to John Blackwood, April 14, 1860
448(3)
From The Times, May 19, 1860
451(7)
E. S. Dallas
From Macmillan's Magazine, April 1861
458(6)
Dinah Mulock
The Nevels of George Eliot
464(2)
Henry James
The Flaw in The Mill on the Floss
466(1)
Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Vulgarity of The Mill on the Floss
467(2)
John Ruskin
Criticism
469(142)
The Heroine of The Mill on the Floss
471(9)
Leslie Stephen
George Eliot
480(3)
Virginia Woolf
The Early Phase
483(6)
F. R. Leavis
Intelligence as Deception: The Mill on the Floss
489(13)
George Levine
Tragedy and the Flux: The Mill on the Floss
502(18)
U. C. Knoepflmacher
Self and Community in The Mill on the Floss
520(23)
Philip Fisher
The Question of Language: Men of Maxims and The Mill on the Floss
543(14)
Mary Jacobus
George Eliot and Objects: Meaning as Matter in The Mill on the Floss
557(19)
John Kucich
Eliot, Wordsworth, and the Scenes of the Sisters' Instruction
576(19)
Margaret Homans
Maggie Tulliver's Desire
595(16)
Deirdre David
Chronology
611(2)
Selected Bibliography
613