Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-227) and index.
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
The mill on the Floss, the critics, and the Bildungsroman / Susan 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 / Josâe Angel Garcâia Landa -- Men of maxims and The mill on the Floss / Mary Jacobus -- Nationhood, adulthood, and the ruptures of Bildung: arresting development in The mill on the Floss / Joshua D. Esty -- Narcissistic rage in The mill on the Floss / Peggy R.F. Johnstone -- 'Light enough to trusten by': structure and experience in Silas Marner / Terence Dawson -- The miser's two bodies: Silas Marner and the sexual possibilities of the commodity / Jeff Nunokawa -- 'A report of unknown objects'" Silas Marner / Jim Reilly -- Silas Marner: a divided Eden / Sally Shuttleworth.