Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dedication. About This Volume / Katie R. Peel -- On George Eliot for Children: From "Loose Baggy Monsters" to "Terrific Fun!"1 / Katie R. Peel -- Biography of George Eliot / Joanne Cord�on -- Edith Simcox on George Eliot: Autobiography of a Love / Constance M. Fulmer -- Critical Tipples: Or, A Nip into George Eliot Criticism, Then and Now / Mark Edelman Boren -- Reaching the Limit: Middlemarch, George Eliot, and the "Crisis" of the "Old-Fashioned English Novel" in the 1870s / Jeffrey E. Jackson -- George Eliot, Margaret Fuller, and Mary Wollstonecraft / Magdalena Nerio -- Life, Death, and Identity in The Lifted Veil: George Eliot's Experiments with First-Person Fiction / Heidi L. Pennington -- Mary Ann Evans, Marian Evans, George Eliot, and Journalism / Janis Chakars -- "Whistle While You Work": The Construction of the Myth of Englishness through the Working Soundscapes in George Eliot's Adam Bede / Carroll Clayton Savant -- George Eliot: Unsung Poet of Sympathy / Wendy S. Williams -- "The world must be romanticized": Tracing George Eliot's German Influences / Gareth Hadyk-DeLodder -- Doubt, Devotion, Duty: George Eliot, the Death of God, and the Quest to Combine Transcendence and Coherence / Shandi Stevenson -- "How Was a Man to Be Explained?": Masculinity, Manhood, and Mothering in Silas Marner / Danny Sexton -- Missing Mother: Eliot's Philosophy of Sympathy and the Effect of Loss in The Lifted Veil / Emilia Halton-Hernandez -- Casaubon's "Highly Esteemed ... Fable of Cupid and Psyche"; Or, Can We Take Myth Seriously in Middlemarch? / Erin A. Spampinato -- What Can Be Learned from an Adaptation of The Mill on the Floss / Abigail Burnham Bloom. Chronology of George Eliot's Life. Works / George Eliot. Bibliography. About the Editor. Contributors.

Mary Ann Evans, also known as George Eliot, published under a male pen name during the Victorian Era to ensure her fiction was taken just as seriously as her male counterparts. This volume of critical essays compares Eliot to those male contemporaries, and studies some of her greatest works, including Silas Marner, Middlemarch, and The Mill on the Floss. Each essay is 2,500 to 5,000 words in length, and all essays conclude with a list of "Works Cited," along with endnotes.