A Companion to George Eliot

A total of 34 literary critical voices contribute to this addition to the Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture series. Editors Amanda Anderson and Harry E. Shaw, in common with most of the other critics contributing to A Companion to George Eliot, have previously written engagingly on various aspects of Victorian literature and especially the novel. In their Introduction (pp. 1-17), Anderson and Shaw express ambitious aims for their volume. They write that “across the wide range of topics and texts addressed in this Companion, one gathers a sense of the extraordinary richness of Eliot's oeuvre and especially of...