JUDITH MITCHELL is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. A frequent commentator on feminist issues and the 19th-century novel, she has published in Modern Fiction Studies, The Victorian Newsletter, English Literature in Transition, Modern Language Studies, and several other journals.

• Introduction: The Erotic Subject Charlotte BronTE The Professor Jane Eyre Shirley Villette George Eliot Adam Bede The Mill on the Floss Middlemarch Daniel Deronda Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd The Return of the Native Tess of the d'Urbervilles Jude the Obscure Conclusion Index

JUDITH MITCHELL is Associate Professor of English at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. A frequent commentator on feminist issues and the 19th-century novel, she has published in Modern Fiction Studies, The Victorian Newsletter, English Literature in Transition, Modern Language Studies, and several other journals.

• Introduction: The Erotic Subject Charlotte BronTE The Professor Jane Eyre Shirley Villette George Eliot Adam Bede The Mill on the Floss Middlemarch Daniel Deronda Thomas Hardy Far from the Madding Crowd The Return of the Native Tess of the d'Urbervilles Jude the Obscure Conclusion Index