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Author: Steven Matthews (Professor of English Literature, Oxford Brookes University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.40cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 0.508kg
ISBN: 9780199574773
ISBN 10: 0199574774
Pages: 234
Publication Date: 21 February 2013
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
Compelling ... Steven Matthewsas study is the first comprehensive critical work to delineate Eliot's lifelong engagement with early modern literature, a milestone made all the more remarkable by Matthews's use of contemporary source materials to reconstruct the early modern period of Eliot's age. John D. Morgenstern, Modernism/Modernity [Matthews] does provide a much-needed exposition of Eliot's relationship to what he called his favorite literaryperiod. Extensive citation of Eliot's work keeps the book grounded in careful close readings, and an easily accessible writing style is on display throughout J. W. Moffett, Choice
exceptional ... a genuine boon to Eliot scholars ... this attention to poetic method is vital and merits serious response. Year's Work in English Studies Compelling ... Steven Matthews's study is the first comprehensive critical work to delineate Eliot's lifelong engagement with early modern literature, a milestone made all the more remarkable by Matthews's use of contemporary source materials to reconstruct the early modern period of Eliot's age. John D. Morgenstern, Modernism/Modernity [An] important book, demanding but rewarding. Paul Dean, English Studies [Matthews] does provide a much-needed exposition of Eliot's relationship to what he called his favorite literaryperiod. Extensive citation of Eliot's work keeps the book grounded in careful close readings, and an easily accessible writing style is on display throughout J. W. Moffett, Choice
[Matthews] does provide a much-needed exposition of Eliot's relationship to what he called his favorite literaryperiod. Extensive citation of Eliot's work keeps the book grounded in careful close readings, and an easily accessible writing style is on display throughout J. W. Moffett, Choice
Author Information
Steven Matthews is Professor of English Literature at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is author of Irish Poetry: Politics, History, Negotiation. The Evolving Debate, 1969 to the Present (Macmillan, 1997); Yeats as Precursor (Macmillan 2000); and Les Murray (Manchester U.P. Contemporary World Writers Series, 2001). He has contributed the volume on Modernism to the Contexts series (Bloomsbury Academic) of which he is founder editor. (2004). He is also editor of the Sourcebooks series for Palgrave, where his book Modernism appeared in 2008.
