Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot [Hardcover]

A collection of essays on sexuality, desire and feminism in T. S. Eliot's work.This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism and feminism in his poetry, prose and drama. In particular, this book illuminates the influence of Eliot's mother, herself a poet; the dynamic of homosexuality in his work; his identification with passive desire in his poetry; and his reception by female academics from the early twentieth century to the present. This book should be essential reading for students of Eliot and Modernism, as well as queer theory and gender studies.This collection brings together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches to study T. S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism and feminism in his poetry, prose and drama. In particular, this book illuminates the influence of Eliot's mother, herself a poet; the dynamic of homosexuality in his work; his identification with passive desire in his poetry; and his reception by female academics from the early twentieth century to the present. This book should be essential reading for students of Eliot and Modernism, as well as queer theory and gender studies.Bringing together scholars from a wide range of critical approaches, this collection studies T.S. Eliot's engagement with desire, homoeroticism and feminism in his poetry, prose and drama. In particular, it illuminates the influence of Eliot's poet mother; the dynamic of homosexuality in his work; his poetic identification with passive desire; and his reception by female academics from the early twentieth century to the present. The book will be essential reading for students of Eliot and Modernism, as well as of queer theory and gender studies.Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Eliot, gender and modernity Cassandra Laity; Part I. Homoeroticisms: 1. The love song of T. S. Eliot: elegiac homoeroticism in the early poetry Colleen Lamos; 2. T. lCo