1. Introduction
2. Mimesis and George Eliot's Fiction
3. Mimetic Anthropology: Eliot's Early Years
4. The Intellectual Development of Mary Ann Evans
5. George Eliot's Clerical Life
6. The Magic of Sympathy in Adam Bede
7. Hell in Other People: Mimesis and The Lifted Veil
8. Death and the River: The Mill on the Floss
9. The Interruptions: Brother Jacob and Silas Marner
10. Romola, Full-Fledged Mimetic Angel
11. Foiled Tragedy and Felix Holt
12. Myth and the Artist: The Spanish Gypsy, The Legend of Jubal, and Armgart
13. The Apocalyptic Angel of Middlemarch
14. Satanic Masquerade: Daniel Deronda
15. Mimesis in Theophrastus Such
Afterword
Works Cited