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.