This collection offers students and scholars of Eliot’s work a timely critical reappraisal of her corpus, including her poetry and non-fiction, reflecting the latest developments in literary criticism. It features innovative analysis ­exploring the relation between Eliot’s Victorian intellectual sensibilities and those of our own era.

• A comprehensive collection of essays written by leading Eliot scholars 
• Offers a contemporary reappraisals of Eliot’s work reflecting a broad range of current academic interests, including religion, science, ethics, politics, and aesthetics  
• Reflects the very latest developments in  literary scholarship
• Traces the revealing links between Eliot’s Victorian intellectual ­concerns and those of today