Middlemarch

This Norton Critical Edition includes: - The 1874 corrected edition of the text, with small textual variations from Eliot's manuscript. - Introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Ronjaunee Chatterjee. - Twenty-three background selections from Eliot's correspondence, journals, and other writings. - Seventeen critical responses, including five contemporary reactions and twelve critical analyses of the novel's most important themes. - A chronology of Eliot's life and a selected bibliography.