Selected Criticism on Silas Marner

Alley, Henry. "Silas Marner and the Balance of Male and Female." VIJ: Victorians Institute Journal 16 (1988): 65-73.

Beer, Gillian. Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-century Fiction. London: Routledge, 1983.

Berger, Courtney. "When Bad Things Happen to Bad People: Liability and Individual Consciousness in Adam Bede and Silas Marner." Novel: A Forum on Fiction 33.3 (2000): 307-27.

Bonaparte, Felicia. "Carrying the Word of the Lord to the Gentiles: Silas Marner and the Translation of Scripture into a Secular Text." Religion and Literature 23 (1991): 39-60.

Carroll, Alicia. Dark Smiles: Race and Desire in George Eliot. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003.

Carroll, David. George Eliot and The Conflict of Interpretations: A Reading of the Novels. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Cohen, Susan R. "'A History and a Metamorphosis': Continuity and Discontinuity in Silas Marner." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 25 (1983): 410-26.

David, Deirdre. Intellectual Women and Victorian Patriarchy: Harriet Martineau, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987.

Dawson, Terence. The Effective Protagonist in the Nineteenth-century British Novel: Scott, Bronte, Eliot, Wilde. Aldershot; Burlington: Ashgate, c2004.

——."'Light enough to Trusten by': Structure and Experience in Silas Marner." The Modern Language Review 88.1 (1993): 26-45. Rpt in Maunder 143-62.

Ermarth, Elizabeth Deeds. "George Eliot's Conception of Sympathy." Nineteenth-Century Literature 40.1 (1985): 23-42.

Fisher, Philip. Making Up Society: The Novels of George Eliot. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1981.

Gilbert, Sandra M. "Life's Empty Pack: Notes Toward a Literary Daughteronomy." Critical Inquiry 11.3 (1985): 355-84.xx

Graver, Suzanne. George Eliot and Community: A Study in Social Theory and Fictional Form. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1984.

Henry, Nancy. George Eliot and the British Empire. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge UP, 2002.

Hertz, Neil. George Eliot's Pulse. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.

Levine, George, ed. The Cambridge Companion to George Eliot.  Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Lewis, Reina. Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity and Representation. London; New York: Routledge, 1996.

Mallen, Richard D. "George Eliot and the Precious Mettle of Trust." Victorian Studies 44 (2001): 41-75.  

Martin, Bruce K. "Similarity within Dissimilarity: The Dual Structure of Silas Marner." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 14 (1972): 479-89.

Nestor, Pauline. George Eliot. Houndmills; New York: Palgrave, 2002.

Nunokawa, Jeff. The Afterlife of Property: Domestic Security and the Victorian Novel. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994. Article version of Marner chap rpt. in Yousaf and Maunder 163-87.

Reilly, Jim. Shadowtime: History and Representation in Hardy, Conrad, and George Eliot. London: Routledge, 1993. 83-97, rpt. in Yousaf and Maunder 188-203.

Shaw, Harry E. Narrating Reality: Austen, Scott, Eliot. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.

Shuttleworth, Sally. George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Science: The Make-Believe of a Beginning. Cambridge:

——. "Fairy Tale Or Science? Physiological Psychology in Silas Marner." (1986). Rpt in Yousaf and Maunder 204-24.

Sonstroem, David. "The Breaks in Silas Marner." Journal of English and Germanic Philology 97 (1998): 545-67.

Stewart, Susan. “Genres of Work: The Folktale and Silas Marner.” New Literary History 34 (2003): 513-33.

Welsh, Alexander. George Eliot and Blackmail. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1985.

Wiesenfarth, Joseph. "Demythologizing Silas Marner." ELH 37.2 (1970): 226-44.

Yousaf, Nahem and Andrew Maunder, eds. The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002.