Eliot's AngelsRen Girards mimetic theory opens up ways to make sense of the tension between the progressive politics of George Eliot and the conservative moralism of her narratives. In this innovative study, Bernadette Waterman Ward offers an original rereading of George Eliots work through the lens of Ren Girards theories of mimetic desire, violence, and the sacred. It is a fruitful mapping of a twentieth century theorist onto a nineteenth century novelist,