Contents: Middlemarch and the passions / B. Hardy -- George Eliot's 'eminent failure', Will Ladislaw / G.S. Haight -- Fusing fact and myth: the new reality of Middlemarch / U.C. Knoepflmacher -- Middlemarch and the externality of fact / D. Carroll -- Myth and the single consciousness: Middlemarch and The lifted veil / G. Beer