The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner [Paperback]

This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novelsThe Mill on the Floss(1860) andSilas 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.

NAHEM YOUSAF lectures in English Literature at the Nottingham Trent University.

ANDREW MAUNDER lectures in English Literature at the University of Hertfordshire.

General Editors' Preface
Introduction
The Mill on the Floss , the Critics and the Bildungsroman; S. Fraiman
The Two Rhetorics: George Eliot's Bestiary; J. Hillis Miller
The Chains of Semiosis: Semiotics, Marxism and the Female Stereotypes in The Mill on the Floss ; J. A. Garcia Landa
Men of Maxims and The Mill on the Floss ; M. Jacobus
Nationhood, Adulthood and the Ruptures of Bildung: Arresting Development in The Mill on the Floss ; J. D. Esty
Narcissistic Rage in The Mill on the Floss ; P. R. F. Johnstone
'Light enough to trusten by': Structure and Experience in Silas Marner ; T. Dawson
The Miser's Two Bodies: Silas Marner and the Sexual Possibilities of the Commodity; J. Nunokawa
'A report of unknown objects': Silas Marner ; J. Reilly
Silas Marner : A Divided Eden; S. Shuttleworth
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.