The Cambridge Companion to The Waste Land

Gabrielle McIntire is Associate Professor in the Department of English at Queen's University, Ontario. She is the author of Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf (2008) and has published articles on T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Nella Larsen and others in such journals as Modern Fiction Studies, Modernism/modernity, Narrative, and Callaloo. McIntire has also published poetry internationally and sits on the editorial board of Twentieth-Century Literature.

• 1. 'The world has seen strange revolutions since I died': The Waste Land and the Great War Jean-Michel Rabaté; 2. Geographies of space: mapping and reading the cityscape Spencer Morrison; 3. 'Mixing/memory and desire': what Eliot's biography can tell us Lyndall Gordon; 4. Religions east and west in The Waste Land Barry Spurr; 5. Popular culture in The Waste Land David E. Chinitz and Julia E. Daniel; 6. Form, voice, and the avant-garde Michael Levenson; 7. Dialectical collaboration: editing The Waste Land Jewel Spears Brooker; 8. Doing tradition in different voices: pastiche in The Waste Land Michael Coyle; 9. Gender and obscenity in The Waste Land Rachel Potter; 10. Trauma and violence in The Waste Land Richard Badenhausen; 11. Psychology, psychoanalysis, and new subjectives in The Waste Land Eve Sorum; 12. The Waste Land as ecocritique Gabrielle McIntire; Coda: The Waste Land's afterlife: the poem's reception in the twentieth century and beyond Tony Cuda.

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