The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner

SUSAN FRAIMAN Professor of English at the University of Virginia J. HILLIS MILLER Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine JOSE ANGEL GARCIA LANDA MARY JACOBUS Professor of English at the University of Cambridge JOSHUA D. ESTY PEGGY R. F. JOHNSTONE TERENCE DAWSON Senior Lecturer, University of Singapore JEFF NUNOKAWA Professor of English at Princeton University JIM REILLY SALLY SHUTTLEWORTH Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Sheffield

This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861).This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861). Eliot's radical cultural politics and the arrestingly original fictional strategies that characterise two of her most popular novels are explored from a variety of perspectives - feminist, historicist, structuralist and psychoanalytic.