Antony Easthope (14 April 1939 – 14 December 1999) was a scholar, writer, and literary controversialist.

Easthope was educated at Tiffin School and Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was taught English by Graham Hough.^[1] He spent most of his career at Manchester Metropolitan University.^[1] He taught also at Brown University, the University of Warwick, Wolfson College, Oxford, the University of Adelaide, and the University of Virginia.^[2] In addition to scholarly and popular books on literary theory, film theory, Marxism, and psychoanalysis, Easthope was known for his letters to newspapers, particularly The Guardian, often attacking prominent literary figures.^[1][3]

Major works

• Poetry as Discourse. London: Methuen, 1983.^[4]
• British Post-Structuralism. London: Routledge, 1988.
• Poetry and Phantasy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
• What a Man's Gotta Do: The Masculine Myth in Popular Culture. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990.
• Literary Into Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 1991.
• Paradigm Lost and Paradigm Regained. London: Routledge, 1993.
• Wordsworth Now and Then: Romanticism and Contemporary Culture. Buckingham: Open University Press, 1993.
• The Impact of Radical Theory on Britain in the 1970s. London: Routledge, 1994.
• Donald Davie and the Failure of Englishness. Albany: SUNY Press, 1996.
• Derrida and British Film Theory. St. Martin's, 1996.
• But What Is Cultural Studies? London: Routledge, 1997.
• Cinecities in the Sixties. London: Routledge, 1997.
• Classic Film Theory and Semiotics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
• The Pleasures of Labour: Marxist Aesthetics in a Post-Marxist World. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 1999.
• Englishness and National Culture. London: Routledge, 1999.^[5]
• Paradise Lost: Ideology, Phantasy and Contradiction. New York: St. Martin's, 1999.
• Postmodernism and Critical and Cultural Theory. New York: Routledge, 1999.
• The Unconscious. London: Routledge, 1999.
• Freud's Spectres. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000.

See also

• British left
• Post-Marxism

References