The Gatekeeper : A Memoir

This memoir blends autobiography with moral, political and cultural reflections. Thoughts about god, evil, suffering, death and tragedy are interwoven with comic or moving scenes from Eagleton's life: his bizarre experiences as a young altar server in a convent of enclosed nuns; his precarious career in 1960s Cambridge as one of the few working-class students among a set of public school boys; and his abortive experience of life in a seminary. Eagleton was brought up in Salford in a working-class Catholic family and is now Thomas Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford. His book discloses the more personal, spiritual side of a well-known cultural thinker; mixing the serious with the hilarious, life with ideas, the personal with the political.

Biographies & Memoirs

TERRY EAGLETON

Memoirs

Penguin??Books

Hope Without Optimism

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Mental Health

Yale University Press

Across The Pond: An Englishman's View Of America

W.W.Norton&Company

First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Marx (The Great Philosophers Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge

87p from a Cambridge college library, paperback, usual library markings otherwise very good, appears never used

Marxism and literary criticism

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

The rape of Clarissa: Writing, sexuality, and class struggle in Samuel Richardson

Blackwell*publishers

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Reprint of 2nd Edition, Blackwell 2003. Large 8vo. x, 234 p. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind. In laminated coloured portrait pictorial paperback wrapper in very good condition.

Literary Theory: An Introduction

University of Minnesota Press

Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Wiley/Blackwell

Terry Eagleton explains that freedom, for Marx, entailed release from commerciallabour, "a kind of creative superabundance over what is materially essential". Eagleton outlines the relationship between production, labour and ownership which lie at the core of Marx's thinking. Marx's utopia was a place in which labour is increasingly automated, emancipating the wealth of sensuous individualdevelopment so that "savouring a peach [is an aspect] of our self-actualisation as much as building dams".

Marx and freedom (The great philosophers)

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Examines the development of the purpose of criticism in English society from the eighteenth to the twentieth century

The function of criticism: From the Spectator to post-structuralism

Verso

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