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Heideggers Bicycle: Interfering with Victorian Texts
Roger Ebbatson
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Description for Heideggers Bicycle: Interfering with Victorian Texts
Hardback. In the 1990s, it was the French theorists such as Derrida, Lacan and Foucault who, with their stress on linguistic play and undecidability, took Victorian Studies by storm. Here, the author shows that what the Germans bring to our understanding of the nineteenth century is a terrible awareness of the darkest moments of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 172 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DSA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
In the 1990s it was the French theorists such as Derrida, Lacan and Foucault who, with their stress on linguistic play and undecidability, took Victorian Studies by storm; now, it seems, it is the Germans who are coming. In Roger Ebbatson's new book, Marx, Simmel, Benjamin and, above all, Heidegger are unleashed on a range of Victorian texts -- some unsuspecting, some all too suspecting. The results are alarming: Ebbatson begins with Tennyson overshadowed by empire and homosocial tensions and ends with Conan Doyle writing about a bicycle belonging to a character called Heidegger. In between, he makes bone-shaking progress ... Read more
In the 1990s it was the French theorists such as Derrida, Lacan and Foucault who, with their stress on linguistic play and undecidability, took Victorian Studies by storm; now, it seems, it is the Germans who are coming. In Roger Ebbatson's new book, Marx, Simmel, Benjamin and, above all, Heidegger are unleashed on a range of Victorian texts -- some unsuspecting, some all too suspecting. The results are alarming: Ebbatson begins with Tennyson overshadowed by empire and homosocial tensions and ends with Conan Doyle writing about a bicycle belonging to a character called Heidegger. In between, he makes bone-shaking progress ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Number of Pages
172
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845191047
SKU
V9781845191047
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About Roger Ebbatson
Roger Ebbatson is visiting Professor at Loughborough University, having taught previously at the University of Sokoto, Nigeria and University College Worcester.
Reviews for Heideggers Bicycle: Interfering with Victorian Texts
"This is a richly rewarding bookwhose stringent analysis of Hardy is matched by its subtle ability to tease out the difference and disjunction inhabiting the Victorian text generally. Recommended."
Andrew Radford, Hardy Society Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 2007.
Andrew Radford, Hardy Society Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, Summer 2007.