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1 online resource (xi, 265 pages) |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Homosexuality and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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England. |
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Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Feminism and literature. |
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Feminism and literature -- England -- History -- 20th century.
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Erotic poetry, American -- History and criticism.
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Erotic poetry, American. |
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Sexual orientation in literature.
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Sexual orientation in literature. |
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Gender identity in literature.
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Gender identity in literature. |
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in literature. |
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Desire in literature.
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Desire in literature. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Laity, Cassandra.
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Gish, Nancy K., 1942-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Gender, desire, and sexuality in T.S. Eliot. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004 0521806887 (DLC) 2004040760 (OCoLC)61246843 |
| ISBN |
0511230435 (electronic book) |
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9780511230431 (electronic book) |
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0511231202 (electronic book) |
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9780511231209 (electronic book) |
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0511228805 |
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9780511228803 |
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051122964X |
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9780511229640 |
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9780511485091 (ebook) |
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0511485093 (ebook) |
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9780521806886 (hardback) |
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0521806887 (hardback) |
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1280702907 |
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9781280702907 |
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0521806887 (Cloth) |
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