Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. Contents xi
4. Part One. The Background
5. 1. The Critics Surveyed: Responses to George Eliot‘s Regionalism 3
6. 2. Country Matters: Regionalism, Realism, and George Eliot's Fiction 19
7. 3. Toward Social History : Continuity and Development in George Eliot‘s Fiction 45
8. Part Two. The Fiction
9. 4. Pillars of Community: Scenes of Clerical Life 67
10. 5. The Speech of the Landscape: Adam Bede 101
11. 6. The Landscape of Memory: The Mill on the Floss 137
12. 7. Toward the Literature of Displacement: Silas Marner 177
13. Bibliography 209
14. Index 229