TY - JOUR
T1 - Moving accidents by flood and field
T2 - The arable and tidal worlds of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss
AU - Archer, Jayne Elisabeth
AU - Marggraf Turley, Richard
AU - Thomas, Howard
PY - 2015/6/1
Y1 - 2015/6/1
N2 - The Mill on the Floss is often regarded as a pastoral work. In fact, arable landscape informs the language, themes and events of George Eliot’s novel. This essay recovers the original agri-environmental world described by Eliot and shows how the lives of the Tullivers and the fate of Dorlcote Mill are driven by the complex interaction of arable and tidal forces. Eliot’s meticulous research into these arable and tidal worlds is reconstructed and it is argued that in this work the novelist reflects on the impact of free market economics on food production and distribution, on agricultural livings and rural communities and on river and land management across Britain.
AB - The Mill on the Floss is often regarded as a pastoral work. In fact, arable landscape informs the language, themes and events of George Eliot’s novel. This essay recovers the original agri-environmental world described by Eliot and shows how the lives of the Tullivers and the fate of Dorlcote Mill are driven by the complex interaction of arable and tidal forces. Eliot’s meticulous research into these arable and tidal worlds is reconstructed and it is argued that in this work the novelist reflects on the impact of free market economics on food production and distribution, on agricultural livings and rural communities and on river and land management across Britain.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84932123696&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/elh.2015.0021
DO - 10.1353/elh.2015.0021
M3 - Review Article
SN - 0013-8304
VL - 82
SP - 701
EP - 728
JO - ELH: English Literary History
JF - ELH: English Literary History
IS - 2
ER -
