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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. 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 Part 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 emotion in Eliot's poetry and poetics Charles Altieri Part III. Modern Women: 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 Richard Badenhausen 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 Index.

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