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This book will fascinate anyone interested in the Victorians or theory. 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.

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Introduction: 'Between two worlds' 1. 'The lowest room': Christina Rossetti through Irigaray's 'Speculum' other than writing 2. The buried lives of silence: Foucault after Arnold 3. Dieu: from Browning , from Derrida Part II: Specters of sludge, or Mr Derrida the medium 4. 'no one dreams': Where Hopkins was, there Lacan will be 5. 'the ends of being': Between Aurora Leigh and Helene Cixous

Victorians in Theory From Derrida to Browning

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 01/10/2009
      ISBN13: 9780719081224, 978-0719081224
      ISBN10: 071908122X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book will fascinate anyone interested in the Victorians or theory. 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.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: 'Between two worlds' 1. 'The lowest room': Christina Rossetti through Irigaray's 'Speculum' other than writing 2. The buried lives of silence: Foucault after Arnold 3. Dieu: from Browning , from Derrida Part II: Specters of sludge, or Mr Derrida the medium 4. 'no one dreams': Where Hopkins was, there Lacan will be 5. 'the ends of being': Between Aurora Leigh and Helene Cixous

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