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