In this essay, Carroll examines the world-views of the Dodsons and Tullivers and their effect on Tom and Maggie's "search for an interpretative key to life."

In the following essay, Paris examines the psychology of the character of Maggie Tulliver using Karen Horney's theories of neurosis.

In the following essay, Carlisle analyzes the autobiographical structural patterns, action, and characterization of George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss.

Below, Bellringer contends that the conclusion of The Mill on the Floss is suitable to the story.

In the following essay, Hagan challenges the conclusions drawn by several earlier critics, maintaining that the relationship between Maggie Tulliver, her brother Tom, and by extension their father, is the main concern of The Mill on the Floss.

In the following essay, Auerbach analyzes The Mill on the Floss as a Gothic romance, noting that it is a novel of sensation rather than naturalism.

In the following essay, first published in 1970 in her Critical Essays on George Eliot, Hardy explores the conclusion of The Mill on the Floss as an example of authorial fantasy.

Here, Ermarth explores the influence of restrictive societal norms on the character of Maggie Tulliver.

In the following excerpt, Thale analyzes The Mill on the Floss as a sociological study.

In the essay below, Levine explores unity of intellect and emotion as the theme of The Mill on the Floss.

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.

In this essay, Freeman contends that the omniscient narration of The Mill on the Floss renders the novel's ending appropriate.

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.

In the following essay, Paget discusses preparations for a television adaptation of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, noting particularly issues relating to the development of the script, the collaboration of the writer and director, and financial and technical aspects of production.

James was an American novelist, short story writer, critic, and essayist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Regarded as one of the greatest novelists of the English language, he is also admired as a lucid and insightful critic. In this article, first published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1866, James offers an early and largely favorable review of The Mill on the Floss.

In the following letter to her publisher, Eliot responds to Edward Bulwer-Lytton's criticism of The Mill on the Floss.

In the following letter written to Eliot, her publisher praises the manuscript of The Mill on the Floss.