The masculinity behind the ghosts of modernism in Eliot’s four quartets

Gender, Desire, and Sexuality in T. S. Eliot

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 83-104

  Middleton, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511485091.005     Document Type: Chapter

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