Literature in our Lives: Talking about Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 The Myth of the Fall and its Impact: Pullman, Lewis and Others
2 Claribel’s Story: A Few Thoughts on Gender, Race and Colonialism in The Tempest
3 Wuthering Heights: Myth and the Wounds of Loss
4 Beckett’s Waiting for Godot: Transforming Lives
5 Great Expectations: Intertextualities, Endings and Life after Plot
6 Emily Dickinson: ‘And Then the Windows Failed’
7 Emma: Rhetoric, Irony and the Reader’s Assault Course
8 Dorian Gray: ‘Queering’ the Text
9 The Fallen Woman: Emma Bovary and (Many) Others
10 Two Transgressive American Women: Kate Chopin, Charlotte Perkins Gilman
11 Hamlet/Lear: Realism/Modernism
12 John Keats: Three (or is it Two?) Poems and Thoughts on ‘Late Style’
13 Republicanism, Regicide and ‘The Musgrave Ritual’
14 Jean Rhys: Her Texts from the 1930s
15 Twelfth Night: Dream-Gift
16 Please Read Proust
17 Paradise Lost: Radical Politics, Gender and Education
Index