The Eagleton Reader

Terry Eagleton (b. 1943), currently the Thomas Warton Professor of English at Oxford University, is an influential figure in the world of literary criticism and theory. In his preface to The Eagleton Reader Stephen Regan, an Eagleton acolyte, makes large claims: he calls “Terry Eagleton the most gifted Marxist thinker of his generation”; Eagleton’s “work has made an impact on the teaching of literary and cultural studies throughout Europe, and in almost every part of the world”; “For the post‐1970s generation of students, researchers and teachers currently engaged in literary and cultural studies in Britain, Eagleton is the critic par...