The best-known and most autobiographical of George Eliot’s novels is now available as a Norton Critical Edition. Preface vii The Text of The Mill on the Floss 1(424) Backgrounds and Contemporary Reactions 425(44) Backgrounds 427(14) Excerpts from Letters 427(7) Brother and Sister 434(7) George Eloit Contemporary Reactions 441(28) From Spectator, April 7, 1860 441(3) From Saturday Review, April 14, 1860 444(4) Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton to John Blackwood, April 14, 1860 448(3) From The Times, May 19, 1860 451(7) E. S. Dallas From Macmillan's Magazine, April 1861 458(6) Dinah Mulock The Nevels of George Eliot 464(2) Henry James The Flaw in The Mill on the Floss 466(1) Algernon Charles Swinburne The Vulgarity of The Mill on the Floss 467(2) John Ruskin Criticism 469(142) The Heroine of The Mill on the Floss 471(9) Leslie Stephen George Eliot 480(3) Virginia Woolf The Early Phase 483(6) F. R. Leavis Intelligence as Deception: The Mill on the Floss 489(13) George Levine Tragedy and the Flux: The Mill on the Floss 502(18) U. C. Knoepflmacher Self and Community in The Mill on the Floss 520(23) Philip Fisher The Question of Language: Men of Maxims and The Mill on the Floss 543(14) Mary Jacobus George Eliot and Objects: Meaning as Matter in The Mill on the Floss 557(19) John Kucich Eliot, Wordsworth, and the Scenes of the Sisters' Instruction 576(19) Margaret Homans Maggie Tulliver's Desire 595(16) Deirdre David Chronology 611(2) Selected Bibliography 613