Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set in provincial England, are well known for their realism and psychological perspicacity. Her most famous wo
Mary Anne Evans (1819-1880), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels, largely set i...
The Clarendon edition of Adam Bede (1859) is the first critical edition of the work that established George Eliot's reputation. Its extensive textual apparatus lists manuscript and first edition variants from the copy-text, which is the corrected eighth edition of 1861--her last revision of the book. The introduction locates the genesis of the novel in Eliot's family history, her travels, and her reading of literature and biography, and describes the composition process, including her debate with the publisher John Blackwood about the suitability of the subject-matter for a family...
The Clarendon edition of Adam Bede (1859) is the first critical edition of the work that established George Eliot's reputation. Its extensive textual ...
Romola, George Eliot's only historical novel, always occupied a special place in her own affections. Looking back at the end of her career, she remarked "I could swear by every sentence as having been written with my best blood." Henry James called it "on the whole the finest thing she wrote." Yet since its first appearance the novel has perplexed many of Eliot's admirers by the range and density of its historical references. The Clarendon Edition, based on the original Cornhill serialization with emendations from later authoritative editions, traces and explains the...
Romola, George Eliot's only historical novel, always occupied a special place in her own affections. Looking back at the end of her career, s...
A scholarly edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
A scholarly edition of The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary no...
A scholarly edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly aparatus.
A scholarly edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and s...
