Silas Marner: The Weaver Of Raveloe (1861): Library Resources

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Full text of Eliot's Silas Marner:The Weaver Of Raveloe is available on the Web at:

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Search the Library Catalog for the following reference titles that contain material about Silas Marner. These titles may be available in other college or public libraries.

• British Authors [5]
  
• Critical Survey of Long Fiction [vol 2]
• The Critical Temper [vol 3]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Characters [vol 4]
• Cyclopedia of Literary Places [vol 3]
• Cyclopepdia of World Authors [vol 2]
• The Library of Literary Criticism [vol 7]
• Masterplots [vol 10]
• Ninteenth-Century Literary Criticism (NCLC) - Contains passages from literary criticism originally published in books and journals
  • [vols 4, 13, 23, 41, 49, 89, 118, 183, 199] - look for Silas Marner in the Cumulative Title Index, a separate paperback index that accompanies this multi-volume work
  • [vol 32] - locate the topical essay "The Victorian Novel"
  • [vol 96] - locate the topical essay "Orientalism"
  • [vol 176] - locate the topical essay "Motherhood in Nineteenth-Century Literature"
• Novels for Students [vol 20]
• The Victorian Novel
  

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• Eliot, George (1819-1880)
  

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