T. S. Eliot and the Mother

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This interdisciplinary book emphasises the importance of T. S. Eliot's mother, Charlotte, to his life and works. Drawing on revealing new Eliot materials, Geary rethinks the poet's ambivalence toward women in the context of mother-son ambivalence, showing how his search for belief and love converged with a developing maternal poetics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 'There Will be Time to Murder and Create': Creative/Destructive Ambivalence in T. S. Eliot's Early Poetry 2 Maternal Allegory: Death and the Mother, Faith and Revelation in Ash-Wednesday 3 Ash-Wednesday: A Poetics of the Maternal Body 4 Recognition in 'Marina' and 'Coriolan': Sea-Changes in Eliot's Thinking on the Maternal 5 'Everything Has Always Been Referred Back to Mother': The Melodramatic Staging of Ambivalence in The Family Reunion Conclusion: T. S. Eliot's Stabat Mater