T. S. Eliot in context / edited by Jason Harding.

"T. S. Eliot's work demands much from his readers. The more the reader knows about his allusions and range of cultural reference, the more rewarding his poems, essays and plays are. This book is carefully designed to provide an authoritative and coherent examination of those contexts essen...

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Other Authors: Harding, Jason
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jason Harding
  • Part I. Life. 1. St Louis / Earl K. Holt III
  • 2. New England / Eric Sigg
  • 3. Paris / William Marx
  • 4. London / C. D. Blanton
  • 5. Englishness / Simon Grimble
  • 6. The idea of Europe / Jeroen Vanheste
  • Part II. Forms. 7. The role of the intellectual / Michael Levenson
  • 8. Publishing / Jason Harding / 9. Censorship / Rachel Potter
  • 10. Literary journalism / Peter White
  • 11. Visual art / Charles Altieri
  • 12. Dance / Terri Mester
  • 13. Drama / Richard Badenhausen
  • 14. Music / David Fuller
  • 15. Radio / Michael Coyle
  • Part III. Literary Cross-Currents. 16. Allusion: the case of Shakespeare / Hugh Haughton
  • 17. Classics / Hannah Sullivan
  • 18. Dante / Massimo Bacigalupo
  • 19. Seventeenth-century literature / Jennifer Formichelli
  • 20. Romantic and Victorian poetry / Michael O'Neill
  • 21. French poetry / Stephen Romer
  • 22. Georgian poetry / Peter Howarth
  • 23. Bloomsbury / Mark Hussey
  • 24. Ezra Pound / Anne Stillman
  • 25. The avant-garde / Marjorie Perloff
  • Part IV. Politics, Society and Culture. 26. Politics / David Bradshaw
  • 27. Economics / Adam Trexler
  • 28. Anti-Semitism / John Xiros Cooper
  • 29. Gender / Rachel Blau DuPlessis
  • 30. Religion / Barry Spurr
  • 31. Philosophy / Manju Jain
  • 32. Social science / Jewel Spears Brooker
  • 33. Natural science / Michael H. Whitworth
  • Part V. Reception. 34. Contemporary reviews / Martin Dodsworth
  • 35. Contemporary and postwar poetry / Stephen Regan
  • 36. Eliot studies / Benjamin G. Lockerd
  • 37. Legacies: from literary criticism to literary theory / Patricia Waugh
  • Guide to further reading.