In the following essay, Payne provides a stylistic and thematic analysis of “The Lifted Veil” and discusses the reaction to the story from her publisher, critics, and readers.

In the following essay, Gilbert and Gubar examine Eliot's place in Gothic female literary tradition, elucidate autobiographical aspects of “The Lifted Veil,” and provide a feminist perspective on the story.

In the following essay, Knoepflmacher investigates the origins of “The Lifted Veil” and considers the story essential to Eliot's development as a philosophical novelist.

In the following excerpt, Redinger discusses the circumstances surrounding the publication of “The Lifted Veil” and addresses similarities between Eliot and the protagonist of the story, Latimer.

In the following essay, Hertz determines the influence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau on “The Lifted Veil.”

In the following essay, Viera asserts that many of Eliot's aesthetic theories found in her early letters and essays are manifest in fictional form in “The Lifted Veil.”

In the following essay, Flint examines “The Lifted Veil” in respect to Victorian views on medicine, science, and psychology.

In the following essay, originally delivered as a lecture in 1980, Eagleton maintains that “The Lifted Veil” explores the limitations and dangers of scientific knowledge.

In the following essay, Uglow argues that Eliot's troubled and lonely personal life pervade “The Lifted Veil.”

In the following essay, Sheasby suggests that Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Minister's Black Veil” may have influenced “The Lifted Veil.”

In the following excerpt, originally published in 1910, Watts-Dunton finds “The Lifted Veil” to be a remarkable story.