A paper for the T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale panel (385 – T. S. Eliot and Emily Hale) that looks at Eliot’s newly unsealed correspondence with Emily Hale, particularly during the year 1937, alongside the character of Mary in Eliot’s 1939 play, The Family Reunion. The paper argues for the centrality of Mary to Eliot’s ambitions for a new kind of…[Read more]

Focused on the criticism of the later writings of Wyndham Lewis, this essay argues that Lewis’s response to the ruining of Enlightenment hopes and promises in the Great War resulted in impassioned polemics and fictions that interrogate the possibility of humanist resistance to the brutalities of modernity. Lewis continues to inspire unusually h…[Read more]