T. S. Eliot's Ascetic Ideal

T. S. Eliot's Ascetic Idealcharts an intellectual history of T. S. Eliot's interaction with asceticism. Eliot's early encounters with the ascetic ideal began a lifetime of interplay and reflection upon self-denial, purgation, and self-surrender.

About the author

Joshua Richards, Ph.D. (2012), University of St Andrews, is Assistant Professor of English at Oklahoma Panhandle State University. While he focuses on T. S. Eliot, he has also written on George MacDonald, C. S. Lewis, and J. K. Rowling.

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Richards
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.09.2020
• EAN: 9789004372580
• ISBN: 978-90-04-37258-0
• No. of pages: 188
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Costerus New
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies