Current Criticism
Current criticism is available for free on our sister websites, licensed with Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0, and available for non-commercial reuse.
Browse or use the search feature to help you find what you need. See below for a brief description of each distinct digital project. Click the title to access:
- On the George Eliot Review Online, users may access and download more than a half-century of George Eliot-related criticism, conferences, society events, speeches, and book reviews. What began as a local society newsletter became an esteemed peer-reviewed journal featuring the most prominent scholars of Eliot’s life and works. Of the two known journals devoted to the author, the George Eliot Review is the longest-running.
- In partnership with the journal’s publisher, the George Eliot Fellowship, a small team of scholars at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln digitized the entire run back to the first edition in 1970. The site is now maintained and updated by the Auburn University research team. All issues of the George Eliot Review are available for free searching, downloading, and sharing with attribution for non-commercial purposes (CC-BY-NC 4.0). Library of Congress-issued ISSN for this online edition is 2831-5375.
- George Eliot Scholars provides a free digital commons where writers can share their work; while this site is similar to Research Gate and Academia, ours is a non-commercial project by and for scholars. We've modeled our endeavor on the MLA's Humanities Commons (CORE), but for George Eliot-related publications exclusively.
- We are accepting articles, monographs, book chapters, theses, dissertations, conference papers, video presentations, and reviews of books about George Eliot. We are also adding content which has been published as open access. Check back regularly for research resources and a collaborative space for scholars of George Eliot's life and works. We added more than 400 items in 2021, and we're just getting started!
- We are no longer accepting contributions with "all rights reserved" but are happy to accept your paper, video, image, dataset, or any research related to George Eliot, so long as you agree to publish using the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
- We are also collecting and adding peer-reviewed journal articles that have been published as Open Access. Though these articles are available elsewhere, we have cleaned the searches and gathered them for you, according to the publishers' restrictions. Many of the journals that released back issues of their journals as open access during the recent 2020-22 pandemic are quietly removing them from their public-facing web pages; we are locating these newly-open journal articles and publishing them on the George Eliot Scholars site. You are free to use these, but please cite our website as you would any edited collection.
- If you have any trouble with our contributions interface or questions about the site, please contact Beverley Park Rilett at bdr0032@auburn.edu.