T. S. Eliot

Harriet Davidson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781317898870
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, T. S. Eliot is generally regarded as a leading exponent of the literary movement which came to be known as Modernism. In this volume, Harriet Davidson collects key recent essays by such internationally renowned critics as Terry Eagleton, Sandra Gilbert, Jacqueline Rose, Jeffrey Perl, Christine Froula, Maud Ellmann, and Michael North, placing Eliot's work centrally in the context of postmodern critical theory.

Eliot's writing is often perceived as incompatible with or resistant to new theoretical approaches, but this volume demonstrates the continuity between Eliot's own theoretical writings and contemporary theory, and illuminates his poetry with imaginative readings from deconstructive, Marxist, psychoanalytic, and feminist perspectives. Headnotes to the essays and a bibliography which lists other informative readings make this book an invaluable guide to all students of twentieth-century poetry, and to scholars interested in the relationship between critical and creative writing.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• General Editors’ Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: To Theorize the Theorist: Eliot and Postmodern Criticism
• Eliot the theorist
• Poststructural readings
• Eliot and ideology
• Eliot and sexuality
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Part One: Eliot the Theorist
• Part Two: Poststructural Readings
• Part Three: Ideological Readings
• Part Four: Eliot and Sexuality
• Notes on Authors
• T. S. Eliot: Major Publications
• Bibliography and Further Reading
• Eliot as theorist
• Poststructural readings of Eliot
• Eliot and ideology
• Eliot and sexuality
• Historical and cultural readings
• Recent collections of criticism
• Index