"This Norton Critical Edition includes: the 1874 corrected edition of the text, with small textual variations from Eliot's manuscript, introductory materials and explanatory footnotes by Ronjaunee Chatterjee, twenty-three background selections from Eliot's correspondence, journals, and other writings, seventeen critical responses, including five contemporary reactions and twelve critical analyses of the novel's most important themes, and a chronology of Eliot's life and a selected bibliography." --