George Eliot : centenary essays and an unpublished fragment / edited by Anne Smith

London : Vision, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 221 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: New George Eliot manuscript / William Baker -- Critical approaches to George Eliot / Terence Wright -- Mill on the Floss and the unreliable narrator / Graham Martin -- Adam Bede and ""the story of the past"" / Charles Palliser -- Romola and the myth of Apocalypse / Janet K. Gezari -- Law, religion and the unity of Felix Holt / Norman Vance -- Origins, Middlemarch, endings : George Eliot's crisis of the antecedent / Jan B. Gordon -- Hero as dilettante : Middlemarch and Nostromo / George Levine -- Fruit and seed : the finale to Middlemarch / Susan Meikle -- Gwendolen Harleth and ""the girl of the period"" / Bonnie Zimmerman. Subjects: Eliot, George 1819-1880 Criticism and interpretation; Women and literature England History 19th century; Didactic fiction, English History and criticism; Women authors writers fiction literature criticism; Eliot, George 1819-1880; Fiction in English Eliot, George 1819-1880; Fiction in English Eliot, George Critical studies.