T. S. Eliot: The Modernist in History

Book Overview

The centenary of Eliot's birth in 1988 provided the salutary occasion for a fresh look at his life and work and a reassessment in light of issues raised by the various critical movements - the new historicism, feminism, reader-reception theory - that have succeeded the New Criticism, loosely subsumable under the rubric post-structuralist. The essays assembled here vary in approach, but they share a commitment to the discipline of history and an awareness that history can function as critique as well as celebration. Several contributors take issue with Eliot's self-presentation and include documents Eliot chose not to emphasise. Others address topics including the business of producing culture in twentieth-century writing, the impact of self-professed masculinist poetry on women readers and modernism's social vouchers.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521390745
• ISBN13: 9780521390743
• Release Date: February 1991
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"