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The Ambivalence of The Mill on the Floss

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‘So intensely real is it that I am not sure whether I did not exclaim aloud ‘Why the devil is she putting poor Maggie into a position where she would be more than human if she did not come to grief”.’1

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  1. John Blackwood to George Eliot, 7 March 1860, The George Eliot Letters, 9 vols (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954–78), III, 272.

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  2. The Mill on the Floss, introd. Gordon S. Haight, Riverside edn. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1961), II, 5: 158. All citations are to this edition.

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  3. In A Century of George Eliot Criticism, ed. Gordon S. Haight (London: Methuen, 1966), pp. 349–60.

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  4. In Essays of George Eliot, ed. Thomas Pinney (London: Routledge, 1963), pp. 261–5.

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  5. Barbara Hardy, ‘The Mill on the Floss,’ in Critical Essays on George Eliot, ed. Barbara Hardy (London: Routledge, 1970), pp. 42–58. See especially pp. 53–56.

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  6. For discussion of the source and significance of this myth see Joseph Wiesenfarth, ‘Legend in The Mill on the Floss’, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 18 (Spring 1976), 20–41; rpt. and rvd in George Eliot’s Mythmaking (Heidelberg: Carl Winter-Universitätsverlag, 1977), pp. 96–123.

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  7. Joan Bennett, George Eliot (Cambridge University Press, 1948), p. 130.

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  1. Ian Adam
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Yale University, USA

    Gordon S. Haight (Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus of English Literature) (Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus of English Literature)

  2. University of Puget Sound, USA

    Rosemary T. Van Arsdel (Professor of English) (Professor of English)

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© 1982 Gordon S. Haight and Rosemary T. VanArsdel

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Adam, I. (1982). The Ambivalence of The Mill on the Floss . In: Haight, G.S., Van Arsdel, R.T. (eds) George Eliot. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05969-0_11

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