Terry Eagleton

List of abbreviations viii

Introduction 1

1 Eagleton and the Catholic Left 9

2 From Williams to Althusser: Eagleton’s Early Literary Criticism 32

3 The Critic as Azdak: Eagleton in the 1980s 59

4 The Ideology of the Postmodern 93

5 Nationalism, Socialism, and Ireland 117

6 The Full Circle? 140

Notes 168

Index 183