A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.BOUT TIlE SEES: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritatie text,contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations from contemporar perspectives to the most current critical theory--as welI as a hibliography and, in many cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.

This Norton Critical Edition of George Eliot's highly regarded novel of provincial English life is based on the 1874 edition, the last corrected by the author. Ample explanatory annotation has been provided by the editor.

Backgrounds elucidates Etiot's ideas on life and art with generous selections Prom her letters, journals, essays, and other fictional works.Five contempora·- reviews record Mictcllemarch's initial reception.

Recent Criticism collects eleven essays--seven of them new to tile Second Edition--that center on the novel's major themes. Mark Schorer, Jerome Beaty, Cherry Wilhelm, Bert G. Hornback, Robert B.Heilman, Lee R. Edwards, Alan Mintz, T. R. Wright, Matthew Rich,Alan Shelston, and Claudia Moscovici provide their varied perspectives.

A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.BOUT TIlE SEES: Each Norton Critical Edition includes an authoritatie text,contextual and source materials, and a wide range of interpretations from contemporar perspectives to the most current critical theory--as welI as a hibliography and, in many cases, a chronology of the author's life and work.COVEt I'AINTING: A aterco]or hy a member of the Pole familv. Artwork from Wood River Media, Inc., San blaael, California.AUtOH'S POIRTFIAIT: Engraving by P. Rajon, taken from the portrait of: Ceorge Eliot by Sir Erederic Wlilliam Burton, 1865.

Preface

The Text of Middlemarch

Backgrounds

 George Eliot · Letter to Sara Sophia Hennell (9 October 1843)

 From The Natural History of German Life (1856)

 From Amos Barton (1857)

 Journal (30 November 1858)

 From Adam Bede (1859)

 Letter to Charles Bray (5 July 1859)

 Letter to Mme. Eugene Bodichon (26 December 1860)

 Letter to Mme. Eugene Bodichon (15 February 1862)

 Letter to Frederic Harrison (15 August 1866)

 Letter to Clifford Allbutt (August 1868)

 From Notes on Form in Art (1868)

 Journal (1 January 1869)

 George Henry Lewes · Letter to John Blackwood (7 May 1871)

 John Blackwood · Letter to George Eliot (20 July 1871)

 George Eliot * Letter to John Blackwood (4 August 1872)

 Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe (October? 1872)

 Journal (1 January 1873)

 Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe (11 November 1874)

 Emily Davies · Letter tO Annie Crow (24 September 1876)

 George Eliot · From Leaves from a Notebook (1871-79)

 Quarry for Middlemarch

Criticism

 CONTEMPORARY REVIEWS

 Saturday Review · Middlemarch

 [Sidney ColvinI · Middlemarch

 Henry James · George Eliot's MiddIemarch

 Joseph Jacobs * George Eliot

 Leslie Stephen · [On Middlemarch]

 RECENT CRITICISM

 Mark Schorer · Fiction and the Matrix of Analogy

 Jerome Beaty · History by Indirection: The Era of Reform in

 Middlemarch

 Cherry Wilhelm · Conservative Reform in Middlemarch

 Bert G. Hornback · The Moral Imagination of George Eliot

 Robert B. Heilman · Stealthy Convergence in Middlemarch

 Lee R. Edwards · Women, Energy, and Middlemarch

 Alan Mintz · Middlemarch: The Romance of Vocation

 T. R. Wright · Middlemarch as a Religious Novel, or

 Life without God

 Matthew Rich · Not a Church, but an Individual Who Is His or

 Her Own Church: Religion in George Eliot's Middlemarch

 Man Shelston · What Rosy Knew: Language, Learning and

 Lore in Middlemarch

 Claudia Moscovici · Allusive Mischaracterization in Middlemarch

George Eliot: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography