Fictional minds and interpersonal relationships in George Eliot's The mill on the floss

George Eliot is known for her psychoanalysis of the majority of the characters in her literary works.

In her second novel, 'The Mill on the Floss', she focuses on the fictional characters' subjective first thoughts and intentions.

She shows how their unsympathetic workings cause private and collective tragedy by the end of narrative.

The novel has frequently been acclaimed by critics and readers alike.

However, this book presents a re-evaluation of the text with the help of terminologies borrowed from cognitive narratology in order to shed new light on the significance of one-track minds in this narrative.

The book explores the mental functioning of the individual fictional minds, and examines how different modes of mental activities influence the interpersonal relationships between and among the characters.