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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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.

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