Criticism: [The heroine of The mill on the Floss] / Leslie Stephen -- George Eliot / Virginia Woolf -- The early phase / F.R. Leavis -- Intelligence as deception : The Mill on the Floss / George Levine -- Tragedy and the flux : The mill on the Floss / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- [Self and community in the Mill on the Floss] / Philip Fisher -- The question of language : men of Maxims and the Mill on the Floss / Mary Jacobus -- George Eliot and objects : meaning as matter in the Mill on the Floss / John Kucich -- Eliot, Wordsworth, and the scenes of the sisters' instruction / Margaret Homans -- Maggie Tulliver's desire / Deirdre David.