Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture with the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University.
...a complex and intellectually stimulating exploration of London
as a fictional topography that doubles as a stage and features a
wide range of characters including lawyers, criminals and the
homeless.--Jane Mattisson, Kristianstad University Sweden "English
Studies 97:5"
In this compellingly complex book, Wolfreys brings phenomenological
theory to bear on close textual criticism. He analyses how reading
works for and on the reader, arguing that every act of writing is
an act of reading, of interpretation. Wolfreys is interested in how
reading works for the modern subject, and how readers and writers
interpret the modern urban scene. This is not a book to read for
the first time in a snatched moment or without full concentration.
The rewards for spending time on it, however, are great; this is a
very striking book that could only be written by an experienced
critic.--Lucinda Matthews-Jones "Journal of Victorian Culture
Online"
In this ground-breaking and stylish new work, Julian Wolfreys
deploys philosophy and theory expertly to present a rich account of
Dickens' London as a dynamic, lived world of issues, energy and
marvels, capturing the vitality and intensity of Dickens' encounter
with the city. A benchmark of innovative literary
criticism.--Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie
University "Nick Mansfield"
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