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"Many critics argue that the modernist avant-garde were always in opposition to the commercial values of market-driven society. For John Xiros Cooper, the avant-garde bears a more complex relationto capitalist culture than previously acknowledged. He argues thatin their personal relationships, gender roles, and sexual contacts, themodernist avant-garde epitomized the impact of capitalism on everyday life. Cooper shows how the new social, cultural, and economic practices aimed to defend cultural values in a commercial age, but,in this task, modernism became the subject of a profound historical irony. Its own characterizing techniques, styles, and experiments,deployed to resist the new nihilism of the capitalist market, eventually became the preferred cultural style of the very market culturewhich the first modernists opposed. In this broad-ranging study John Xiros Cooper explores this provocative theme across a wide range ofModernist authors, including Joyce, Eliot, Stein, and Barnes."

"T.S. Eliot was not only one of the most important poets of the twentieth century; as literary critic and commentator on culture and society, his writing continues to be profoundly influential. Every student of English must engage with his writing to understand the course of modern literature. This book provides the perfect introduction to key aspects of Eliot’s life and work, as well as to the wider contexts of modernism in which he wrote. John Xiros Cooper explains how Eliot was influenced by the intellectual climate of both twentieth-century Britain and America, and how he became a major cultural figure on both sides of the Atlantic. The continuing controversies surrounding his writing and his thought are also addressed. With a useful guide to further reading, this is the most informative and accessible introduction to T. S. Eliot."