The Lifted Veil, George Eliot - Further Reading
FURTHER READING
CRITICISM
Argyros, Ellen. “Sympathy and Judgment, Knowledge and Mystery: The Limits of Human Understanding in The Mill on the Floss and “The Lifted Veil.”’ In “Without Any Check of Proud Reserve”: Sympathy and Its Limits in George Eliot's Novels, pp. 97-135. New York: Peter Lang, 1999.
Examines the theme of conflict between sympathy and judgment and between knowledge and mystery in “The Lifted Veil” and The Mill on the Floss.
Beer, Gillian. “Myth and the Single Consciousness: Middlemarch and ‘The Lifted Veil.’” In This Particular Web: Essays on Middlemarch, edited by Ian Adam, pp. 91-115. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1975.
Argues that “by studying ‘The Lifted Veil’ along side, Middlemarch we can come to a fuller knowledge of the ways George Eliot sought out beyond the ‘desolate loneliness’ of a single consciousness.”
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