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The Mill on the Floss

An Anthropocene Edition

by George Eliot
Contributors: Megan ButlerFrancesca ColonneseRachel DusinAverie FreundMara MinionZenia Rios

This edition recontextualizes Eliot's The Mill on Floss in the Anthropocene, highlighting key passages that take on new resonance in light of human disruption of the Earth System. It includes a critical introduction, annotations, suggestions for further reading, and additional resource collections. Prepared by Megan Butler, Francesca Colonnese, Rachel Dusin, Averie Freund, Mara Minion, and Zenia Rios for Jesse Oak Taylor's English 440/529 course, Spring 2020. If you would like to add your own notes to our edition, we ask that you that you mark them as private annotations.

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Introduction: An Anthropocene Edition

  • Introduction: The Mill On The Floss And The Anthropocene

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Novel: Main Text

  • The Mill on the Floss

    by George Eliot
    Updated April 2020
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Further Reading

  • Select Bibliography

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Annotations Guide

Probability and the Order of Nature

Contributed by Megan Butler

  • Book First, Chapter I "Outside Dorlcote Mill"

  • Book First, Chapter IV “Tom Is Expected”

  • Book First, Chapter VI “The Aunts and Uncles are Coming”

  • Book Fourth, Chapter I “A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet”

  • Book Seventh, Chapter V “The Last Conflict”

Temporality and Adherence to Anthropocentric Time

Contributed by Francesca Colonnese

  • Book First, Chapter XII “Mr and Mrs Glegg at Home”

  • Book Second, Chapter I “Tom’s ‘First Half’”

  • Book Fourth, Chapter III “A Voice from the Past”

  • Book Sixth, Chapter VI “Illustrating the Laws of Attraction”

  • Book Sixth, Chapter XIII “Borne Along by the Tide”

  • Book Seventh, “Conclusion”

Determinism, Choice, and Agency

Contributed by Rachel Dusin

  • Book First, Chapter VII “Enter the Aunts and Uncles”

  • Book First, Chapter XII “Mr and Mrs Glegg at Home”

  • Book Sixth, Chapter XIV “Waking”

  • Book Seventh, “Conclusion”

The Human and the Nonhuman

Contributed by Averie Freund

  • Book First, Chapter V “Tom Comes Home”

  • Book First, Chapter XII "Mr and Mrs Glegg at Home"

  • Book Sixth, Chapter VI “Illustrating the Laws of Attraction”

  • Book Sixth, Chapter XIII “Borne Along by the Tide”

Evolutionary and Developmental Theory

Contributed by Mara Minion

  • Book First, Chapter II “Mr Tulliver, of Dorlcote Mill, Declares His Resolution about Tom”

  • Book First, Chapter V “Tom Comes Home”

  • Book First, Chapter VI “The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming”

  • Book First, Chapter IX “To Garum Firs”

  • Book Fourth, Chapter I “A Variation of Protestantism Unknown to Bossuet”.

  • Book Fourth, Chapter III “A Voice from the Past”

  • Book Fifth, Chapter III “The Wavering Balance”

  • Book Fifth, Chapter V “The Cloven Tree”

  • Book Sixth, Chapter XIV “Waking”

Realist Fiction and the Uncanny in Nature

Contributed by Zenia Rios

  • Book First, Chapter IV “Tom Is Expected”

  • Book Third, Chapter VII “How a Hen Takes to Stratagem”

  • Book Third, Chapter IX “An Item Added to the Family Register”

  • Book Seventh, Chapter V “The Last Conflict”

Resources

Resource Collections

  • The Works of Charles Darwin

    Resource Collection
  • Amitav Ghosh's Berlin Lecture Series

    Resource Collection
  • Traditional Watermills

    Resource Collection
  • Developing Geologic Time

    Resource Collection
4 Total Collections

Single Resources

  • Video

    Amitav Ghosh, "Fiction II," Lecture 2 of 4, 9.30.15

  • Video

    Amitav Ghosh, "Politics," Lecture 4 of 4, 10.07.15

  • Link

    Coronavirus: Ancient Mill Resumes Commercial Flour Production

  • Video

    People of Science - Charles Lyell

  • Link

    Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology

  • Video

    Amitav Ghosh, "Fiction I," Lecture 1 of 4, 9.29.15

  • Link

    On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

  • Video

    Steam Engine - How Does It Work

  • Link

    The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

  • Video

    Amitav Ghosh, "History," Lecture 3 of 4, 10.06.15

12 Total Resources

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  • Text Added

    Select Bibliography

    June 12, 2020
  • Text Added

    Introduction: The Mill On The Floss And The Anthropocene

    June 02, 2020
  • Resource Added

    People of Science - Charles Lyell

    May 29, 2020
  • Resource Collection Added

    Developing Geologic Time

    May 29, 2020
  • Resource Added

    Pegwell Bay, Kent – a Recollection of October 5th 1858 ? by William Dyce

    May 29, 2020
  • Resource Added

    Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology

    May 29, 2020

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    The Mill on the Floss
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    Project Gutenberg
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    Public domain in the USA.
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