T. S. Eliot in Context

Jason Harding is Reader in English Studies, Durham University and Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of English Studies, University of London.

• Introduction Jason Harding; Part I. Life: 1. St Louis Earl K. Holt III; 2. New England Eric Sigg; 3. Paris William Marx; 4. London C. D. Blanton; 5. Englishness Simon Grimble; 6. The idea of Europe Jeroen Vanheste; Part II. Forms: 7. The role of the intellectual Michael Levenson; 8. Publishing Jason Harding; 9. Censorship Rachel Potter; 10. Literary journalism Peter White; 11. Visual art Charles Altieri; 12. Dance Terri Mester; 13. Drama Richard Badenhausen; 14. Music David Fuller; 15. Radio Michael Coyle; Part III. Literary Cross-Currents: 16. Allusion Hugh Haughton; 17. Classics Hannah Sullivan; 18. Dante Massimo Bacigalupo; 19. Seventeenth-century literature Jennifer Formichelli; 20. Romantic and Victorian poetry Michael O'Neill; 21. French poetry Stephen Romer; 22. Georgian poetry Peter Howarth; 23. Bloomsbury Mark Hussey; 24. Ezra Pound Anne Stillman; 25. The avant-garde Marjorie Perloff; Part IV. Politics, Society and Culture: 26. Politics David Bradshaw; 27. Economics Adam Trexler; 28. Anti-Semitism John Xiros Cooper; 29. Gender Rachel Blau DuPlessis; 30. Religion Barry Spurr; 31. Philosophy Manju Jain; 32. Social science Jewel Spears Brooker; 33. Natural science Michael H. Whitworth; Part V. Reception: 34. Contemporary reviews Martin Dodsworth; 35. Contemporary and postwar poetry Stephen Regan; 36. Eliot studies Benjamin G. Lockerd; 37. Legacies: from literary criticism to literary theory Patricia Waugh; Guide to further reading; Index.

'[T. S. Eliot in Context] is a highly useful volume. Many of the essays illuminate with a personal perspective well-informed, solid accounts of essential topics in Eliot studies. Others synthesize recent developments in Eliot scholarship the authors themselves have pioneered, or else flesh out interestingly idiosyncratic critical approaches to their subjects. Finally, there are a few essays that, fulfilling Harding's hopes, provide thick description of adjacent historical materials and open up genuinely fresh scholarly approaches to Eliot's work.' Modernism/Modernity