T. S. Eliot

The Modernist in History

Ronald Bush editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:19th Mar '09

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The centenary of Eliot's birth in 1988 provided the salutary occasion for a fresh look at his life and work.

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.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.

ISBN: 9780521105286

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm

Weight: 340g

224 pages