The Anglo-Catholic Apocalyptic Milieu and T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land
This article seeks to clarify which apocalyptic elements of the World War I era persist into The Waste Land. It begins with a thick historical contextualization. Then, it looks at contemporaneous media that characterizes the Anglo-Catholic apocalyptic milieu. Next, it examines an adjacent literary p...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Christianity & literature
Year: 2024, Volume: 73, Issue: 2, Pages: 206-228 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBF British Isles KDB Roman Catholic Church KDE Anglican Church NBQ Eschatology |
| Further subjects: | B
Apocalypticism
B World War I B Anglo-Catholicism B The Waste Land B Armageddon |
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| Summary: | This article seeks to clarify which apocalyptic elements of the World War I era persist into The Waste Land. It begins with a thick historical contextualization. Then, it looks at contemporaneous media that characterizes the Anglo-Catholic apocalyptic milieu. Next, it examines an adjacent literary parallel: a forgotten play called Armageddon. Finally, I approach the poem itself, teasing out the elements of the Anglo-Catholic milieu and analyzing how Eliot imports and subverts their meaning. I conclude that the Anglo-Catholic apocalyptic helps form the contextual contrast from which the poem’s meanings can be multiplied and reappraised. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2024.a930541 |
