_Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot_ (Cambridge University Press, 2004) co-edited by Cassandra Laity and Nancy K. Gish is now available at <amazon.com> or Cambridge University Press U.S. and U.K.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Eliot, gender, and modernity, Cassandra Laity

I. Homoeroticisms
1. the love song of T. S. Eliot: elegiac homoeroticism in the early poetry, Colleen Lamos

2. T. S. Eliot, famous clairvoyante, Tim Dean

3. "Cells in one body: : nation and eros in the early work of T. S. Eliot, Michele Tepper

4. The masculinity behind the ghosts of modernism in Eliot's _Four Quartets_, Peter Middleton

II. Desire
5. Discarnate desire: T. S. Eliot and the poetics of dissociation, Nancy K. Gish

6. Mimetic desire and the return to origins in _The Waste Land_, Jewel Spears Brooker

7. Theorizing emotions in Eliot's poetry and poetics, Charles Altieri

8. Through schoolhouse windows: women, the academy, and T. S. Eliot, Gail McDonald

9. T. S. Eliot speaks the body: the privileging of female discourse in _Murder in the Cathedral_ and "The Cocktail Party"

10. T. S. Eliot, women, and democracy, Rachel Potter

11. Vipers, viragos and spiritual rebels: women in T. S. Eliot's Christian society plays, Elisabeth Daumer







Cassandra Laity
Associate Professor
Co-Editor, _Modernism/Modernity_
Department of English
Drew University
Madison, NJ 07940
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