Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton, Distinguished Professor of English Literature at Lancaster University, is the author of many books. Across the Pond: An Englishman’s View of America will be published by Norton in June.

In the LRB Archive:

• Frog in your throat?: How to Purge a Demon · 9 May 2013

  • The Devil Within: Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West by Brian Levack

• What you see is what you get: Bishop Berkeley · 25 April 2013

  • The Correspondence of George Berkeley edited by Marc Hight

• Shaved, Rouged and Chignoned: Fanny and Stella · 7 March 2013

  • Fanny and Stella: The Young Men Who Shocked Victorian England by Neil McKenna

• Even Uglier: Music Hall · 20 December 2012

  • My Old Man: A Personal History of Music Hall by John Major

• Grub Street Snob: ‘Fanny Hill’ · 13 September 2012

  • Fanny Hill in Bombay: The Making and Unmaking of John Cleland by Hal Gladfelder

• Irishness is for other people: Enrique Vila-Matas · 19 July 2012

  • Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas, translated by Anne McLean and Rosalind Harvey

• Moll’s Footwear: Defoe · 3 November 2011

  • Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox and the Creation of a Myth by Katherine Frank
  • Moll: The Life and Times of Moll Flanders by Siân Rees

• Overdoing the Synge-song: Sebastian Barry · 22 September 2011

  • On Canaan’s Side by Sebastian Barry

• An Octopus at the Window: Dermot Healy · 19 May 2011

  • Long Time, No See by Dermot Healy

• Indomitable: Marx and Hobsbawm · 3 March 2011

  • How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011 by Eric Hobsbawm

• Nothing Nice about Them: The Brontës · 4 November 2010

  • The Brontës: Tales of Glass Town, Angria and Gondal edited by Christine Alexander

• Washed in Milk: Cardinal Newman · 5 August 2010

  • Newman’s Unquiet Grave: The Reluctant Saint by John Cornwell

• Count the Commas: Craig Raine’s novel · 24 June 2010

  • Heartbreak by Craig Raine

• Darwin Won’t Help: Evocriticism · 24 September 2009

  • On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction by Brian Boyd

• Leave me alone: Terry Eagleton joins the Yeomen · 30 April 2009

  • What Price Liberty? How Freedom Was Won and Is Being Lost by Ben Wilson

• Does a donkey have to bray?: The Reality Effect · 25 September 2008

  • Accident: A Philosophical and Literary History by Ross Hamilton

• Determinacy Kills: Theodor Adorno · 19 June 2008

  • Theodor Adorno: One Last Genius by Detlev Claussen

• Unhoused: anonymity · 22 May 2008

  • Anonymity: A Secret History of English Literature by John Mullan

• Coruscating on Thin Ice: The Divine Spark · 24 January 2008

  • Creation: Artists, Gods and Origins by Peter Conrad

• I Contain Multitudes: Bakhtin is Everywhere · 21 June 2007

  • Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World by Graham Pechey

• Have you seen my Dada boss?: standing up for stereotyping · 30 November 2006

  • Typecasting: On the Arts and Sciences of Human Inequality by Ewen and Ewen

• Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching: Richard Dawkins · 19 October 2006

  • The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins

• Eat it: Marcel Mauss · 8 June 2006

  • Marcel Mauss: A Biography by Marcel Fournier, translated by Jane Marie Todd

• Making a Break: Fredric Jameson’s Futures · 9 March 2006

  • Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire Called Utopia and Other Science Fictions by Fredric Jameson

• Lend me a fiver: The grand narrative of experience · 23 June 2005

  • Songs of Experience: Modern American and European Variations on a Universal Theme by Martin Jay

• Spiritual Rock Star: The failings of Pope John Paul II · 3 February 2005

  • The Pope in Winter: The Dark Face of John Paul II’s Papacy by John Cornwell

• Running out of Soil: Bram Stoker and Irish Protestant Gothic · 2 December 2004

  • From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker by Paul Murray

• Living as Little as Possible: Lodge’s James · 23 September 2004

  • Author, Author: A Novel by David Lodge

• Her Father’s Dotter: The life of Lucia Joyce · 22 July 2004

  • Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake by Carol Loeb Shloss

• Anti-Humanism: Lawrence Sanitised · 5 February 2004

  • D.H. Lawrence and ‘Difference’: Post-Coloniality and the Poetry of the Present by Amit Chaudhuri

• Pork Chops and Pineapples: The Realism of Erich Auerbach · 23 October 2003

  • Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature by Erich Auerbach

• Reach-Me-Down Romantic: For and Against Orwell · 19 June 2003

  • George Orwell by Gordon Bowker
  • Orwell: The Life by D.J. Taylor
  • Orwell: Life and Times by Scott Lucas

• Kettles boil, classes struggle: Lukács recants · 20 February 2003

  • A Defence of ‘History and Class Consciousness’: Tailism and the Dialectic by Georg Lukács, translated by Esther Leslie

• In the Company of Confreres: ‘Modern British Fiction’ · 12 December 2002

  • On Modern British Fiction edited by Zachary Leader

• Nudge-Winking: T.S. Eliot’s Politics · 19 September 2002

  • The ‘Criterion’: Cultural Politics and Periodical Networks in Interwar Britain by Jason Harding

• Maybe he made it up: Faking It · 6 June 2002

  • The Forger’s Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature by Nick Groom

• A Good Reason to Murder Your Landlady: I.A. Richards · 25 April 2002

  • I.A. Richards: Selected Works 1919-38 edited by John Constable

• Larry kept his mouth shut: gallows speeches · 18 October 2001

  • Gallows Speeches from 18th-Century Ireland by James Kelly

• 11 September · 4 October 2001

• A Spot of Firm Government: Claude Rawson · 23 August 2001

  • God, Gulliver and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination 1492-1945 by Claude Rawson

• Having one’s Kant and eating it: Northrop Frye · 19 April 2001

  • Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks 1982-90: Volume One edited by Robert Denham
  • Northrop Frye’s Late Notebooks 1982-90: Volume Two edited by Robert Denham

• For the hell of it: Norberto Bobbio · 22 February 2001

  • In Praise of Meekness: Essays on Ethics and Politics by Norberto Bobbio, translated by Teresa Chataway

• Qui s’accuse, s’excuse: in confessional mode · 1 June 2000

  • Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature by Peter Brooks

• The Estate Agent: Stanley Fish · 2 March 2000

  • The Trouble with Principle by Stanley Fish

• Hasped and Hooped and Hirpling: Beowulf · 11 November 1999

  • Beowulf translated by Seamus Heaney

• Mothering: The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín · 14 October 1999

  • The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Tóibín

• In the Gaudy Supermarket: Gayatri Spivak · 13 May 1999

  • A Critique of Post-Colonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

• Allergic to Depths: gothic · 18 March 1999

  • Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin by Richard Davenport-Hines

• Newsreel History: Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter Conrad · 12 November 1998

  • Modern Times, Modern Places by Peter Conrad

• Good dinners pass away, so do tyrants and toothache: Death, Desire and so forth · 16 April 1998

  • Death, Desire and Loss in Western Culture by Jonathan Dollimore

• Enjoy! · 27 November 1997

  • The Indivisible Remainder: An Essay on Schelling and Related Matters by Slavoj Žižek
  • The Abyss of Freedom/Ages of The World by Slavoj Žižek and F.W.J. Von Schelling
  • The Plague of Fantasies by Slavoj Žižek

• Pretty Much like Ourselves · 4 September 1997

  • Modern British Utopias 1700-1850 by Gregory Claeys

• Spaced Out · 24 April 1997

  • Justice, Nature and the Geography of Difference by David Harvey

• Homelessness · 20 June 1996

  • States of Fantasy by Jacqueline Rose

• The Hippest · 7 March 1996

  • Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues edited by David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen

• Love thy neighbourhood · 16 November 1995

  • The Curious Enlightenment of Professor Caritat by Steven Lukes

• Biogspeak · 21 September 1995

  • George Eliot: A Biography by Frederick Karl

• Wallpaper and Barricades · 23 February 1995

  • William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy

• Deadly Fetishes · 6 October 1994

  • East, West by Salman Rushdie

• Spooky · 7 July 1994

  • The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats. Vol. III: 1901-1904 edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard
  • Modern Irish Literature: Sources and Founders by Vivian Mercier

• In the Twilight Zone · 12 May 1994

  • The Frankfurt School by Rolf Wiggershaus, translated by Michael Robertson

• Theydunnit · 28 April 1994

  • What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe

• Swag · 6 January 1994

  • Safe in the Kitchen by Aisling Foster

• First-Class Fellow Traveller · 2 December 1993

  • Patrick Hamilton: A Life by Sean French

• Angry ’Un · 8 July 1993

  • The Hand of the Arch-Sinner: Two Angrian Chronicles of Branwell Brontë edited by Robert Collins

• It is not quite true that I have a body, and not quite true that I am one either · 27 May 1993

  • Body Work by Peter Brooks

• Lapsing · 8 April 1993

  • No Other Life by Brian Moore

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