{"product_id":"victorians-in-theory","title":"Victorians in Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Each  century,\" wrote Charles Dickens \"[is] more amazed by the century  following it than by all the centuries before.\"  Victorians in theory  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 postructuralist  theory through 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.  \u003cbr\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 specters,  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.\u003cbr\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","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54231684546904,"sku":"9780719081224","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780719081224_19d5ce83-ccfd-4e63-a6fc-10ffb6423f1e.jpg?v=1777180543","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/victorians-in-theory","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}