George Eliot

<p>As a woman in an illegal marriage publishing under a male pseudonym George Eliot was one of the most successful yet controversial writers of the Victorian period. Today she is considered a key figure for women’s writing and her novels including <em>The Mill on the Floss</em> and <em>Middlemarch</em> are commonly ranked as literary classics.</p><p>This guide to Eliot’s enduringly popular work offers:</p><ul> <li>an accessible introduction to the contexts and many interpretations of Eliot’s texts from publication to the present </li> <li>an introduction to key critical texts and perspectives on Eliot’s life and work situated in a broader critical history </li> <li>cross-references between sections of the guide in order to suggest links between texts contexts and criticism </li> <li>suggestions for further reading. </li> </ul><p>Part of the <em>Routledge Guides to Literature</em> series this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of George Eliot and seeking not only a guide to her works but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds them.</p>