A selective list of articles for the British novelist George Eliot, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages
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Allen, Brooke. "Complexity and contradiction: Virginia Woolf and George Eliot," New Criterion, Nov. 1997
Ashton, Rosemary. A review of Ashton's George Eliot: A Life (Allen Lane/The Penguin Press). Reveiwed in the NYTimes, 7/27/97 by William S. Peterson
Bodenheimer, Rosemarie. The Real Life of Mary Ann Evans: George Eliot, Her Letters and Fiction (Cornell Univ. Press, 1994) Reviewed by Linda M. Shires in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 1995; light review in Boston College Chronicle, by Sandra Howe
Bonaparte, Felicia. Introduction to Middlemarch. Oxford Univ. Press web site. At Google Books
Capuano, Peter J. "An objective aural-relative in Middlemarch." [musical imagery; Arthur Schopenhauer]. SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 2007 Autumn; 47 (4): 921-41
Deresiewicz, William Barry. "The novel of community from Austen to modernism" [Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad]. PhD dissertation, Columbia, 1998
Eigner, Edwin M. Review of three scholarly works on George Eliot: George Eliot by Rosemary Ashton; George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Make-Believe of a Beginning by Sally Shuttleworth; The Teaching of George Eliot by William Myers. First page of review only. The Modern Language Review, Vol. 82, No. 4 (Oct., 1987), pp. 932-934
Graham, Stephen Meyer. "George Eliot's dialogue with history" [the interplay of fictional text and historical subtext in Romola, Felix Holt, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda]
Hughes, Katherine. A review of George Eliot: The Last Victorian. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux.). Also, the first chapter of the book. NYTimes, 7/18/99
Hughes, Katherine. "The Mystery of Amos Barton." "An anonymous short story, written 150 years ago, about a real-life country clergyman caused suspicion and intrigue in literary circles." In The (UK) Guardian, 1/6/07
Jacobs, Alan. On George Eliot as a Christian and moral writer. In First Things: A Journal of Religion and Public Life (removed from http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0004/reviews/jacobs.html)
Kramer, Dale. "The Compositor as Copy-Text." Kramer explains the editing process in Romola for the Clarendon Edition of the Novels of George Eliot. Transactions of the Society for Textual Scholarship, Vol. 9 (removed from www.msstate.edu/Archives/TEXT/vol9/romola.html)
Lesjak, Carolyn. "A modern odyssey: Realism, the masses, and nationalism in George Eliot's Felix Holt." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 1996
Litvak, Joseph. Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel. (Univ. of Calif. Press, 1992). A complete, book-length critical study. Litvak contends that private experience in George Eliot "is a rigorous enactment of a public script that constructs normative gender and class identities." Courtesy of the California Digital Library
Logan, Peter Melville. "George Eliot and the fetish of realism." Studies in the Literary Imagination, Fall 2002
Novy, Marianne L. A review of Novy's Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot & Other Women Novelists (Univ. of Georgia Press.1994) Reviewed in College Literature, Spring 2000 by Fike, Matthew
Machann, Clinton. "The male villain as domestic tyrant in Daniel Deronda: Victorian masculinities and the cultural context of George Eliot's novel." [Masculinity]. The Journal of Men's Studies, 22-MAR-05
Maitzen, Rohan. Whether religious faith is necessary to morality, and how George Eliot answered this question. From Professor Maitzen's blog, 6/25/07
Malmud, Anne Deborah. "Widows, spinsters, and modern mannish maidens: Femmes soles in nineteenth-century English law and literature" [novels of George Eliot, Jane Austen, Anne Brontë; Married Women's Property Acts]. PhD dissertation, Columbia, 1996
Markovits, Stefanie. "George Eliot's Problem with Action." SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 2001 Autumn; 41 (4): 785-803
Mitchell, Rebecca N. Learning to Read: Interpersonal Literacy in Adam Bede." Papers on Language and Literature, Spring 2008
Payne, David. "The serialist vanishes: Producing belief in George Eliot." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 1999
Price, Leah. "George Eliot and the production of consumers." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Winter 1997
Purdy, Dwight H. "'The One Poor Word' in Middlemarch." [irony, sympathy, treatment of the poor] SEL: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, 2004 Autumn; 44 (4): 805-21
Stephens, Leslie. A 1902 biography of George Eliot, written by Virginia Woolf's father
Uglow, Nathan. A substantial introduction to George Eliot, from the Literary Encyclopedia. On Adam Bede; on Scenes of Clerical Life; on The Mill on the Floss; on Silas Marner; on Romola; on Felix Holt; on Middlemarch
Vigderman, Patricia. The traffic in men: female kinship in three novels by George Eliot, Style, Spring, 1998
Watson, Tim. "Jamaica, Genealogy, George Eliot: Inheriting the Empire After Morant Bay." Watson traces changing cultural constructions of race and class in 19th century England through the novelistic career of George Eliot. Jouvert 1, 1
Woolf, Virginia. An appreciation of George Eliot by novelist Virginia Woolf, Times Literary Supplement, 20th November, 1919
Wormald, Mark. Microscopy and Semiotic in Middlemarch, Nineteenth Century Literature, Volume 50, Issue 4, March 1996 (removed from http://www.ucpress.edu/scan/ncl-free/504/articles/wormald.art504.html)
The Victorian Web has many essays on George Eliot's technique, themes, biography, and the Victorian background
A guide for teaching Middlemarch from the Public Broadcasting System. Includes suggestions on presenting and discussing episodes of the film version, a biography of Eliot, article on the historical context, and suggestions for using film to develop critical, analytical skills
Another excellent teaching guide, on Daniel Deronda, from the Public Broadcasting System
Brief biography of George Eliot by the Secretary of the George Eliot Fellowship
Overview of Victorian literature, covers the writings of George Eliot and others, from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute
Older criticism on the social and political novel and George Eliot, from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21)
"Women in the Literary Marketplace," an online exhibit from the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell Univ., contains short entries on several Victorian women authors and their typical themes, information about the publishing context, and some images of first editions
Recommended secondary criticism for George Eliot, from a graduate class at Oxford Univ.
Web site for Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature: A scholarly journal devoted to the study of women's literature of all periods and nationalities [Feminist and Women's Studies]
Web site for Women's Writing, an international scholarly journal focusing on women's writing up to the end of the long nineteenth century. A sample copy is available for viewing, requires registration
Old reviews from the Atlantic Monthly contemporary criticism of George Eliot's novels in editions of the Atlantic Monthly from the nineteenth century can be found at this site, provided by Cornell Univ.
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