Mill on the Floss bibliography

English 564 Leila S. May

Selected Bibliography: The Mill on the Floss
Auerbach, Nina. "The Power of Hunger: Demonism and Maggie Tulliver." Romantic Imprisonment: Women and Other Glorified Outcasts. New York: Columbia University Press, 1986.
Barrett, Dorothea. Vocation and Desire: George Eliot's Heroines. London and New York: Routledge, 1989.
Beer, Patricia. Reader, I Married Him. New York: Macmillan, 1974.
Boone, Joseph, and Deborah Nord. “Brother and Soster: The Seductions of Siblinghood in Dickens, Eliot, and Brontë.” Western Humanities Review 46.2 (Summer 1992): 164-88.
Buckley, Jerome Hamilton. Season of Youth: The Bildungsroman from Dickens to Golding. Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1974.
Burnett. T. A. "Brother and Sister: New George Eliot Letters." The British Library Journal 3.1 (Spring l977): 24-26.
Bushnell, John P. “Maggie Tulliver’s ‘Stored-up Force’: A Re-reading of The Mill on the Floss.” Studies in the Novel 16 *1984): 378-96.
Calder, Jenni. Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction. Thames and Hudson, 1976.
Christ, Carol. "Aggression and Providential Death in George Eliot's Fiction." Novel 9 (1976): 130-40
Cohen, William. “Schadenfreude in The Mill on the Floss.” Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996. 130-158.
David, Dierdre. "Maggie Tulliver's Desire." In Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy: Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, 1987.
Ermarth, Elizabeth. “Maggie Tulliver’s Long Suicide.” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 (SEL) 14 (1974): 587-601.
Esty, Joshua D. “Nationhood, Adulthood, and the Ruptures of Bildung: Arresting Development in The Mill on the Floss.” Narrative 4.2 (May 1996): 142-60. And in Yousaf and Maunder, ed. 101-21.
Fisher, Philip. "Self and Community in The Mill on the Floss." Making Up Society: The Novels of George Eliot. Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 1981.
Fraiman, Susan. "The Mill, the Critics, and the Bildungsroman. Unbecoming Woman: British Women Writers and the Novel of Female Development. Columbia Univ. Press, 1993.
Fuchs, Eva. "'The Pattern's All Missed': Separation/Individuation in The Mill on the Floss." Studies in the Novel 19.4 (Winter 1987): 422-434.
Garcia-Landa, Jose Angel. “The Chains of Semiosis: Semiotics, Marxism, and the Female Stereotypes.” In Yousaf and Maunder, ed. 83-82.
Gilbert, Sandra and Susan Gubar. “George Eliot as the Angel of Destruction.” The Madwoman in the Attic. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Cf. 491-94.
Hagan, John. "A Reinterpretation of The Mill on the Floss. PMLA 87.1 (Jan. l972): 53-62.
Hardy, Barbara. The Novels of George Eliot. Athlone Press, 1959.
-----. Critical Essays on George Eliot. New York: Routledge, 1970
Homans, Margaret. "Eliot, Wordsworth, and the Scenes of the Sisters' Instruction." In Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Jacobus, Mary. "The Question of Language: Men of Maxims and The Mill on the Floss." In Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism. London, 1986. And in Yousaf and Mouander.
Johnstone, Peggy R.F. “Narcissistic Rage in The Mill on the Floss.” In Yousaf and Maunder, ed. 122-42
Knoepflmacher, U.C.. "Tragedy and Flux: The Mill on the Floss." In George Eliot's Early Novels: The Limits of Realism. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968.
-----. "Genre and the Integration of Gender: From WW to George Eliot to Virginia Woolf." Victorian Literature and Culture. Ed. James Kinkaid and Albert J. Kuhn. Athens, Ohio: Ohio Univ. Press, 1984.
Kucich, John. "George Eliot and Objects: Meaning as Matter in The Mill on the Floss." In Repression in Victorian Fiction: Charlotte Bronte, George Eliot, and Charles Dickens. University of California Press, 1987.
-----. "George Eliot and Objects: Meaning as Matter in The Mill on the Floss. Dickens Studies Annual: Essays in Victorian Fiction 12 (1983) pp. 310-341.
Levine, George. "Intelligence as Deception: The Mill on the Floss. George Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays. Ed. George R. Creeger. New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 1970.
Liddell, Robert. The Novels of George Eliot. London: Duckworth, 1977.
Loesberg, Jonathan. “Aesthetics, Ethics, and Unreadable Acts in George Eliot.” In Anger, Suzy, ed. Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2001. 121-47.
Logan, Peter. “George Eliot and the Fetish of Realism.” Studies in the Literary Imagination. 35.2 (Fall 2002): 27-54.
Newton, Judith Lowder. Women, Power and Subversion: Social Strategies in British Fiction, 1778-1860. London, 1985.
Maier, Sarah E. “Portraits of the Girl-Child: Female Bildungsroman in Victorian Fiction” Literature Compass 4.1 (Jan. 2004): 317-35.
Meyer, Susan. "'The Preservation of the Favored Races in the Struggle for Life': The Costs of History's Progress in The Mill on the Floss. In Imperialism at Home: Race and Victorian Women's Fiction. Cornell University Press, 1996. 126-56.
Miller, J. Hillis. “The Two Rhetorics: George Eliot's Bestiary. In Yousaf and Maunder, ed. 57-72.

Moldstad, David. “The Mill on the Floss and Antigone.” PMLA 85 (1970): 527-31.

Peterson, Carla L. “The Mill on the Floss and Jude the Obscure: The Return of the Pagan.” The Determined Reader: Gender and Culture in the Novel from Napoleon to Victoria. New Brunswick and London: Rutgers University Press, 1987. 180-207,
Polhemus, Robert M. "In Love with Moistness: George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss." In Erotic Faith: Being in Love from Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990.
Rauch, Alan. “Destiny as an Unmapped River: George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss.” In Useful Knowledge: The Victorians, Morality, and the March of Intellect. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2001. 190-248.
Ranjini, Philip. “Maggie, Tom, and Oedipus: A Lacanian Reading of The Mill on the Floss.” Victorian Newsletter (Fall 1992): 35-40.
Sadoff. Diane. Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Eliot, and Bronte on Fatherhood. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1982.
Spacks, Patricia Meyer. "Power and Passivity. In The Female Imagination. NY: Knopf, 1975.
Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of their Own. Princeton Univ. Press, 1977.
Smith, David. "'In their death they were not divided': The Form of Illicit Passion in Mill," Literature and Psychology 15.3 (1965).
Weinstein, Philip. The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity From Dickens to Joyce. (Princeton Univ. Press, 1984).
Williams, Raymond. The English Novel. Paladin, 1974. (Cf. Chap. 3.)
Yousaf,-Nahem, and Andrew Maunder, ed. The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002.