The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot

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This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot includes several new chapters, providing an essential introduction to all aspects of Eliot's life and writing. Accessible essays by some of the most distinguished scholars of Victorian literature provide lucid and original insights into the work of one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century, author most famously of Middlemarch, Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, and Daniel Deronda. From an introduction that traces her originality as a realist novelist, the book moves on to extensive considerations of each of Eliot's novels, her life and her publishing history. Chapters address the problems of money, philosophy, religion, politics, gender and science, as they are developed in her novels. With its supplementary materials, including a chronology and an extensive section of suggested readings, this Companion is an invaluable tool for scholars and students alike.

George Levine is Professor Emeritus at Rutgers University, New Jersey. His previous publications include Reading Thomas Hardy (Cambridge, 2017), Darwin the Writer (2011), Lifebirds (1997) and as editor, The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot (Cambridge, 1st edition, 2001). Nancy Henry is Professor of English and Distinguished Professor in Humanities at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her previous publications include: The Life of George Eliot (2012), The Cambridge Introduction to George Eliot (Cambridge, 2008) and George Eliot and the British Empire (Cambridge, 2002).