The Eagleton Reader

Acknowledgements.

Part I: Literary Criticism.

Introduction.

1. The Novels of D. H. Lawrence.

2. Nature and the Fall in Hopkins: A Reading of 'God's Grandeur' (1973).

3. Thomas Hardy and Jude the Obscure (1974).

4. Wuthering Heights (1975).

5. Shakespeare and the Letter of the Law (1986).

6. Tony Harrison's V (1986).

7. Estrangement and Irony in the Fiction of Milan Kundera (1987).

Part II: Cultural Politics/Sexual Politics.

Introduction.

8. The Idea of a Common Culture (1967).

9. Tennyson: Politics and Sexuality in The Princess and In Memoriam (1978).

10. The Rape of Clarissa (1982).

11. The Crisis in Contemporary Culture (1992).

12. Body Work (1993).

Part III: Marxism and Critical Theory.

Introduction.

13. Ideology and Literary Form (1976).

14. Walter Benjamin: Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (1981).

15. Human Rights and Deconstruction (1992).

16. Ideology (1994).

17. Marxist Literary Theory (1995).

18. Marxism without Marxism: Jacques Derrida and Specters of Marx (1995).

Part IV: Modernism and Postmodernism.

Introduction.

19. The End of English (1987).

20. Modernism, Myth, and Monopoly Capitalism (1989).

21. Defending the Free World (1990).

22. The Right and the Good: Postmodernism and the Liberal State (1994).

Part V: Friends and Philosophers.

Introduction.

23. Resources for a Journey of Hope: Raymond Williams (1989).

24. The Death of Desire: Arthur Schopenhauer (1990).

25. My Wittgenstein (1994).

Part VI: Ireland's Own.

Introduction.

26. History and Myth in Yeats's 'Easter' 1916 (1971).

27. Nationalism: Irony and Commitment (1988).

28. Saint Oscar (1989).

29. Unionism and Utopia: The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney (1991).

30. Heathcliff and the Great Hunger (1995).

The Ballad of Marxist Criticism.

Bibliography.

Index.