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Victorians in Theory : From Derrida to Browning
Victorians in Theory From Derrida to Browning Author:John Schad "Each century," wrote Charles Dickens, "[is] more amazed by the century following it than by all the centuries before." This book explores the startling conceit that nineteenth-century poetry is amazed by twentieth-century literary theory. In a daring and exciting departure from critical convention, John Schad re-reads postructuralist theory thr... more »ough Victorian poetry. Each chapter pairs a poet with a theorist: Robert Browning meets Jacques Derrida; Christina Rossetti encounters Luce Irigaray; Matthew Arnold is after Michel Foucault; Gerald Manley Hopkins dreams with Jacques Lacan; and Elizabeth Barrett Browning haunts Hélène Cixous. Reading both across and between these writers, the author opens up a radically intertextual space.« less