Abstract: Ideology is the core of Eagleton cultural and political criticism.As an outstanding scholar on contemporary Western Marxism,Eagleton applied the theory to the study on literature,and proposed that literature is the production of ideology.Through the criticism of literary fiction,self-referential nature and the value judgments,the ideological characteristics of Eagleton literary theory is highlighted.

Key words: Western Marxism, ideology, formalism, fiction, value judgments