The Victorian era is a period in which there are incompatibilities between the individual and society due to the oppressive structures and attitudes of society, so Victorian writers are concerned with the problems of gender, identity and otherness, particularly George Eliot. Thus, this book examines Eliot’s early novels, The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner, in the light of Kristevan theories and terms to indicate the construction of gender and identity. The Mill on the Floss is discussed with regard to t