“julian wolfreys”

Continuum’s Guides for the Perplexed are clear, concise and accessible introductions to thinkers, writers and subjects that students and readers can find especially challenging. Concentrating specifically on what it is that makes the subject difficult to grasp, these books explain and explore key ... More

"Writing London: Inventions of the City" stages a series of interventions and inventions of urban space between the years 1880 and 1930 in key literary texts of the period. Making sharp distinctions between modernity and modernism, the volume reassesses the city as a series of singular sites irreduc... More

Beginning with an introductory survey of the variety of literary representations and responses to the city, and the relations between self and urban space, "Writing London" follows the shaping of the urban consciousness from William Blake to Charles Dickens and through readings of Shelley, Barbauld,... More

"Dickens to Hardy, 1837-1884" charts the transitions of particular Victorian literary and cultural concerns across nearly fifty years of the Nineteenth century. With each chapter focusing on readings of particular novels, Julian Wolfreys questions how the Victorian middle classes identified themselv... More

Julian Wolfreys introduces students to the central concept of transgression, showing how to interpret the concept from a number of theoretical standpoints. He demonstrates how texts from different cultural and historical periods can be read to examine the workings of 'transgression' and the way in w... More