The Art of Conduct, the Conduct of Art and the Mixed Science of Eliot's Ethics: 'The Sympathetic Impulse' and 'The Scientific Point of View' in The Mill on the Floss
Title
The Art of Conduct, the Conduct of Art and the Mixed Science of Eliot's Ethics: 'The Sympathetic Impulse' and 'The Scientific Point of View' in The Mill on the Floss
Description
The Mill on the Floss is full of keys and clues. Most famously, Maggie Tolliver, following her father's bankruptcy, 'wanted some key that would enable her to understand and, in understanding, endure, the heavy weight that had fallen on her young heart.' In chapter three of Book Four of Eliot's…
Creator
Simon Calder
Source
George Eliot Review
2010: 41, 60-74
2010: 41, 60-74
Publisher
GER and George Eliot Archive
Date
Published 2010
Digitized 2017
Digitized 2017
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Citation
Simon Calder, “The Art of Conduct, the Conduct of Art and the Mixed Science of Eliot's Ethics: 'The Sympathetic Impulse' and 'The Scientific Point of View' in The Mill on the Floss,” George Eliot Review Online, accessed March 4, 2021, https://georgeeliotreview.org/items/show/690.