SOURCE: "Men of Maxims and The Mill on the Floss," in Reading Woman: Essays in Feminist Criticism, Columbia University Press, 1986, pp. 62-79.
In the following excerpt, first published in Critical Inquiry in 1981, Jacobus applies a critical feminist perspective to the language of The Mill on the Floss.
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