SOURCE: "The Intrusion of Tragedy: The Ordeal of Richard Fever el and The Mill on the Floss," in Laughter & Despair: Readings in Ten Novels of the Victorian Era, University of California Press, 1971, pp. 109-35.
In this excerpt, Knoepflmacher compares Eliot's The Mill on the Floss to George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, noting that these novels do not effectively negotiate the split between romance and realism.
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