George Eliot Archives - The American Scholar

Flunking Description

By William Zinsser | 09/22/2017 |

Why I tried to write like a Victorian novelist

George Eliot’s Middlemarch

By Alison Case | 02/01/2016 |

A liberal education in itself

Godless Art

By Paula Marantz Cohen | 12/03/2013 |

In the absence of religion, is morality enough?

Vocational Crisis

By Paula Marantz Cohen | 01/15/2013 |

Slow down and take time to discover your life’s work

Teaching the Domestic Novel

By Paula Marantz Cohen | 12/27/2011 |

Secrets

By Anne Matthews | 09/01/2008

Why Read George Eliot?

By Paula Marantz Cohen | 03/01/2006

Her novels are just modern enough—and just old-fashioned enough, too