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In the Reading gaol

Name: In the Reading gaol
Author: Valentine Cunningham
ISBN: 9780631151982

by Cunningham, Valentine

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Overview

In this critical tour de force , Valentine Cunningham offers a sequence of controversial arguments in favour of the worldly stuff of texts, a commodity that he sees to be still too commonly discredited, down-played and repressed by post-modernist theory and practice.
In the course of its critique this books inspects, with startling originality, texts from the Bible to Jane Eyre, Hamlet to Batman (the movie), Tristram Shandy to Finnegan's Wake, concentrating particularly on classic nineteenth-century realist novels such as Emma, Hard Times, Bleak House, Middlemarch, The Trumpet Major and Heart of Darkness , as well as classic twentieth-century novels, including Beckett's Watt and Golding's Rites of Passage .

About the Author, Valentine Cunningham

Valentine Cunningham is Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, Lecturer in English Literature at Oxford University, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Konstanz in Germany. His previous books include British Writers of the Thirties (1988) and Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel (1975). His The Life of Charles Dickens is forthcoming from Blackwell Publishers.