{"product_id":"victorians-in-theory-by-john-schad-9780719081224","title":"Victorians in Theory","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach century, wrote Charles Dickens, \"[is] more amazed by the century following it than by all the centuries before.\" \u003ci\u003eVictorians in Theory\u003c\/i\u003e explores the startling conceit that nineteenth-century poetry is amazed by twentieth-century literary theory. In a daring and exciting departure from critical convention, Schad re-reads poststructuralist theory through Victorian poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReading both across and between these writers, Schad opens up a radically intertextual space; he wanders, in Matthew Arnold's words, \"between two worlds.\" Across this no-man's land appear a host of unlikely spectres, among them T. S. Eliot, Martin Luther, Friedrich Nietzsche, Lewis Carroll's Alice, Walter Benjamin's \"angel of history,\" and the woman taken in adultery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book will fascinate anyone interested in the Victorians or theory; at once rigorous and readable, it will appeal to both the scholar and the student.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47601203183852,"sku":"9780719081224","price":46.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/f0ba4d7589e558653d43271e768037a4.jpg?v=1778018560","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/victorians-in-theory-by-john-schad-9780719081224","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}