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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 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.
Contents
Introduction Ronald Bush; Part I. Eliot's Women/Women's Eliot: 1. Eliot and women Lyndall Gordon; 2. Gender, voice and figuration in Eliot's early poetry Carol Christ; Part II. Ara Vos Prec: 3. Eliot's negotiation of satire and suffering James Longenbach; 4. The Waste Land and Eliot's poetry notebook John T. Mayer; 5. The price of Modernism: publishing The Waste Land Lawrence Rainey; Part III. Eliot and the Practice of Twentieth-Century Poetry: 6. The allusive poet: Eliot and his sources A. Walton Litz; 7. Forms of simultaneity in The Waste Land and Burnt Norton Alan Williamson; Part IV. The History and Future of Modernism: 8. Eliot, Lukacs and the politics of Modernism Michael North; 9. T. S. Eliot and Modernism at the present time: a provocation Ronald Bush; Index.
