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 Mine. Eug~ne 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 Blaekwood·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 Colvin]·Middlemarch
Henry James·George Eliot's MiddIemarch
Joseph Jacobs·George Eliot
Leslie Stephen·IOn Middlemarch]
RECENT CRITICISM
Mark Schorer·Fiction and the "Matrix of Analogy"
Jerome Beaty·History by Indirection: The Era of Reform in MiddIemarch
Cherry Wilhehn·Conservative Reform in Middlemareh
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 Alan Shelston·What Rosy Knew: Language, Learning and Lore in Middlemarch
Claudia Moscovici " Allusive Mischaracterization in Middlemarch
George Eliot: A Chronology