Rereading George Eliot -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. No Longer the Same Interpreter -- READING GEORGE ELIOT THEN AND NOW -- A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE -- RHETORIC VERSUS MIMESIS -- CRITICAL CONTROVERSIES -- 2. "An Angel Beguiled": Dorothea Brooke -- CALVIN BEDIENT ON MIDDLEMARCH -- RHETORICAL TREATMENT OF DOROTHEA -- DOROTHEA AS A MIMETIC CHARACTER -- DOROTHEA'S "EDUCATION": CASAUBON -- DOROTHEA AND WILL -- SAVING ROSAMOND -- DOROTHEA'S SAD SACRIFICE -- 3. The Two Selves of Tertius Lydgate -- LYDGATE AS FOIL TO DOROTHEA -- PRELUDE TO LYDGATE -- LYDGATE'S TWO SELVES -- LYDGATE'S DEMORALIZATION -- LYDGATE AND ROSAMOND -- LYDGATE'S SAD SACRIFICE -- 4. "A Dreadful Plain Girl": Mary Garth -- A FOIL TO THE EGOISTS -- MARY'S HARD LIFE -- MARY AND FRED -- FRED VINCY -- THAT HAPPY ENDING -- 5. "This Problematic Sylph": Gwendolen Harleth -- GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS AND GREAT PROBLEMS -- A CONFUSING PICTURE OF GWENDOLEN -- MORE VERSIONS OF GWENDOLEN -- GWENDOLEN'S SORROWS -- ENTER GRANDCOURT -- 6. "The Crushed Penitent": Gwendolen's Transformation -- INTRODUCTION -- GWENDOLEN'S TERROR AND GUILT -- CAPTAIN DAVILOW AND MRS. GLASHER -- POSTMARITAL MISERIES -- 7. Gwendolen and Daniel: A Therapeutic Relationship? -- CRITICAL DISAGREEMENTS -- IS DERONDA'S INFLUENCE TRANSFORMATIVE? -- GWENDOLEN AND GRANDCOURT'S DEATH -- DERONDA NOT GWENDOLEN'S THERAPIST -- GWENDOLEN'S NEW EXISTENCE -- 8. Deronda the Deliverer -- AN IMAGINED HUMAN BEING -- DANIEL'S PECULIAR POSITION -- SEARCH FOR A VOCATION -- DERONDA'S AMBIVALENCE -- THE FAILED RELATIONSHIP WITH GWENDOLEN -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W.