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This Norton Critical Edition includes:
- The 1874 corrected edition of the text, with small textual variations from Eliot's manuscript.
- Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Ronjaunee Chatterjee.
- Twenty-three background selections from Eliot's correspondence, journals, and other writings.
- Seventeen critical responses, including five contemporary reactions and twelve critical analyses of the novel's most important themes.
- A chronology of Eliot's life and a selected bibliography.
About the author
Born Mary Ann Evans, Victorian novelist George Eliot (1819-1880) is the author of a number of remarkable works, including the masterpiece Middlemarch.Ronjaunee Chatterjee is assistant professor of English at Queens University. Her primary field of interest is nineteenth-century literature, especially poetry and the novel. She is the author of Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature, coeditor of a special issue of Victorian Studies (with Alicia Mireles Christoff and Amy R. Wong), and coauthor of an introductory essay, “Undisciplining Victorian Studies,” which won the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Donald Gray Prize for best essay in Victorian Studies. Her essays and reviews have appeared in differences, Mediations, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Literature, ASAP Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, and other publications.
