This series aims to take full account of contemporary literary theory, providing collections of key modern readings of major authors, genres and critical approaches. Prefaced by an editorial introduction, individual volumes in the series offer the student a guide to the best theoretically-informed critical work on subjects from Chaucer to the present. In this, the first book in the series, K.M.Newton brings together 13 essays covering the major works of Eliot, but focusing on "The Mill on the Floss", "Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda". Among the critical positions represented are British post-structuralism; deconstruction; feminism; psychoanalysis; Marxism and new historicism.