ISBN-13: 9780393963328 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 640 str.
ISBN-13: 9780393963328 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 640 str.
"Backgrounds" includes fifteen letters from the 1859-69 period centering on the novel's content and composition; "Brother and Sister" (1869), a little-known sonnet sequence; and eight Victorian reviews and responses, both published and unpublished, on the novel, including those by Henry James, Algernon Charles Swinurne, and John Ruskin Judiciously chosen from the wealth of essays onThe Mill on the Floss published in this century, "Criticism" includes ten of the best studies of the novel, providing the reader with historical and critical perspective. The contributors are Leslie Stephen, Virginia Woolf, F. R. Leavis, George Levine, Ulrich Knoepflmacher, Philip Fisher, Mary Jacobus, John Kucich, Margaret Homans, and Deirdre David A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.