Critics on George Eliot

First published in 1973 Critics on George Eliot brings together a selection of the best critical essays and discussions on the novels of George Eliot, including many that are not easily available outside well established and comprehensive libraries. The selection covers the whole range of George Eliot's work, and by setting different critical points of view side by side helps the student to find a position of her own. The intention is not to limit the student's critical reading to one small volume, but to stimulate to explore the critics more widely for herself and to read the novels again with greater understanding, and pleasure. This is a must read for students of English literature.

Introduction Acknowledgements Part I: Critics on George Eliot: 1856-1953 Part II: Modern Critics on George Eliot 1. Middlemarch: The Writing of Chapter 81 2. George Eliot 3. Beyond the Liberal Imagination: Vision and Unreality in Daniel Deronda 4. Felix Holt as Classic Tragedy 5. The Two Worlds of Adam Bede 6. Romola: A Reading of the Novel 7. Silas Marner: Reversing the Oracles of Religion 8. Scenes of Clerical Life Select Bibliography