Title Gender, desire, and sexuality in T.S. Eliot / edited by Cassandra Laity and Nancy K. Gish

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) Contents Introduction : Eliot, gender, and modernity / Cassandra Laity -- The love song of T.S. Eliot : elegiac homoeroticism in the early poetry / Colleen Lamos -- T.S. Eliot, famous clairvoyante / Tim Dean -- "Cells in one body" : nation and eros in the early work of T.S. Eliot / Michele Tepper -- The masculinity behind the ghosts of modernism in Eliot's Four quartets / Peter Middleton -- Discarnate desire : T.S. Eliot and the poetics of dissociation / Nancy K. Gish -- Mimetic desire and the return to origins in The waste land / Jewel Spears Brooker -- Theorizing emotions in Eliot's poetry and poetics / Charles Altieri -- Through schoolhouse windows : women, the academy, and T.S. Eliot / Gail McDonald -- T.S. Eliot speaks the body : the privileging of female discourse in Murder in the cathedral and The cocktail party / Richard Badenhausen -- T.S. Eliot, women, and democracy / Rachel Potter -- Vipers, viragos, and spiritual rebels : women in T.S. Eliot's Christian society plays / Elisabeth Däumer Summary This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T.S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism and early twentieth-century feminism in his poetry, prose and drama, and should be essential reading for students of Eliot and Modernism, as well as queer theory and gender studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 fast Subject Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century Erotic poetry, American -- History and criticism Sexual orientation in literature. Gender identity in literature. Human body in literature. Desire in literature. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Desire in literature Erotic poetry, American Feminism and literature Gender identity in literature Homosexuality and literature Human body in literature Sexual orientation in literature England United States Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Laity, Cassandra Gish, Nancy K., 1942- ISBN 0511230435 9780511230431 0511231202 9780511231209 0511228805 9780511228803 051122964X 9780511229640 9780511485091 0511485093 9780521806886 0521806887 1280702907 9781280702907 9780521039468 0521039460

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