George Eliot (born Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880) was one of the most important writers of the Victorian period, as well as an important translator and essayist. Although such novels of provincial life as The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch have seen her characterised as a thoroughly English writer, her reception and immersion in the literary, intellectual and political life of Europe was remarkable. Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Reception of George Eliot in Europe is the first comprehensive and systematic survey of Eliot's place in European culture. Exploring Eliot's deep knowledge of German literature and thought, her galvanizing influence on women novelists and translators in countries as diverse as Sweden and Spain, and her friendship with leading figures such as Mazzini, Turgenev, and Liszt, this study reveals her full stature as a cosmopolitan writer and thinker.

Including an historical timeline and a comprehensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources and translations, The Reception of George Eliot in Europe is an essential reference resource for anyone working in the field of Victorian Literature.

Elinor Shaffer is a Fellow of the British Academy, (Hon.) Professor, University College London, UK, and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. She is the Director of Research and Series Editor of the Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, of which The Reception of George Eliot in Europe is the twenty-first volume. She is also author of 'Kubla Khan' and The Fall of Jerusalem: the Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature (1980), which begins with Coleridge and concludes with a study of Daniel Deronda; author of the Introduction to the Everyman Middlemarch; and "The Sound of Grass Growing": Eliot in Weimar', a lecture to the Goethe Society. She is a founder-member of the British Comparative Literature Association and founder-editor of Comparative Criticism.

Catherine Brown is Head of Faculty and Senior Lecturer in English Literature at New College of the Humanities, London, UK. She is the author of The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare, is an Anglo-Russian comparatist, and is Vice-President of the DH Lawrence Society.