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