George Eliot: A guide through the critical maze

The quantity of secondary literature on major novelists, dramatists and poets grows steadily year by year and students have to face an increasing variety of criticism presented in reading lists and bibliographies. The "State of the Art" series is designed to help students find a path through the maze of important critical works. Each guide in this series offers an evaluative survey of the main critical books and influential articles on a particular writer, treating these both as pieces of criticism and also as representative of distinct critical approaches and traditions. The guides are concise, designed for easy reference with a minimum of notes, aiming to open a clear way to advanced critical study. In addition to looking at historical trends, each book will present a "state of the art" survey of current critical responses to the writer in question.