Widely regarded as England's most influential living literary critic & theorist, Dr Eagleton currently serves as Distinguished Prof. of English Literature at the Univ. of Lancaster & as Visiting Prof. at the Nat'l Univ. of Ireland, Galway. He was Thomas Warton Prof. of English Literature at the Univ. of Oxford ('92-01) & John Edward Taylor Prof. of English Literature at the Univ. of Manchester 'til '08. He returned to The Univ. of Notre Dame in the Fall '09 semester as Distinguished Visitor in the English Dep't. He's written over 40 books, including Literary Theory: An Introduction ('83); The Ideology of the Aesthetic ('90) & The Illusions of Postmodernism ('96). He delivered Yale's '08 Terry Lectures & gave a Gifford Lecture in 3/10, titled The God Debate.
Series
Books
Criticism and Ideology
A Study in Marxist Literary Theory
1976
How to Read a Poem
2006
Ideology
An Introduction
1988
Myths of Power
A Marxist Study of the Brontës
1975
Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth Century Ireland
2000
The Meaning of Life
A Very Short Introduction
2007
Saints and Scholars
1987
The Task of the Critic
Terry Eagleton in Dialogue
2009
The Function of Criticism
From the Spectator to Post-Structuralism
1984
The Event of Literature
2012
The Truth About the Irish
1999
Walter Benjamin
Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism
1985
Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature
1988
Marxism and Literary Criticism
1976
The Illusions of Postmodernism
1996
Tragedy
1908
The Idea of Culture
2000
Why Marx Was Right
2011
The Rape of Clarissa
Writing, Sexuality and Class Struggle in Samuel Richardson
1982
Heathcliff and the Great Hunger
Studies in Irish Culture
1995
Radical Sacrifice
2018
Literary Theory
An Introduction
1983
Culture and the Death of God
2014
Saint Oscar
1989
Holy Terror
2005
How to Read Literature
2013
Wittgenstein
The Terry Eagleton Script and the Derek Jarman Film
1993
The English Novel
An Introduction
2004
Sweet Violence
The Idea of the Tragic
2002
The Gatekeeper
A Memoir
2001
The Philosophy of Humor
2019
Culture
2016
Hope without Optimism
2015
The Gospels
Jesus Christ
2007
Marxist Literary Theory
A Reader
1996
Figures of Dissent
Reviewing Fish, Spivak, Zizek and Others
2003
On Evil
2010
Trouble with Strangers
A Study of Ethics
2008
Across the Pond
An Englishman's View of America
2013
After Theory
2003
Reason, Faith, and Revolution
Reflections on the God Debate
2009
The Significance of Theory
1990
Materialism
2014
Marx and freedom
1997
The Ideology of the Aesthetic
1990
