Literature, in Theory

Acknowledgements
Foreword, in lieu of an introduction
1. Toward a Phenomenology of Urban Gothic: Dickens's Examples
2. Houses, Homes, Rooms and Tombs: The Unhomely Spaces and Monstrous Economies of Dombey and Son
3. In Visibility or, the Appearance of 'True Histories': Truth, Confession and Revelation in Anne Brontë
4. Contested Grounds: Historical, Epistemological and Political Identities in Victorian Literature
5. (Sub) Urbi et Orbi: The Little Worlds of London or, Fear, Whimsy, and Singularity
6. Professions: of English Diaspora?
7. No, Not, None, Nothing, Nobody: Place, Pattern, Death and Narratives of Negation in Dubliners
8. 'A self-referential density': Glyph, Fictions of Transgression and the 'Theory' Thing
9. 'Theory' and the novel (and the novel?)
10. Ghosts: of Ourselves or, Drifting with Hardy and Heidegger
11. The reiterable circularity of Being: Poetics, Selfhood, and the Singular Witness that is 'I'
12. Teaching Derrida: 'but just a minute, before we begin, a preface of sorts (after the event), a defence, apologia, apologue...', and other responses in the face of (yet another) programmed avoidance of reading
13. 'The strong dead return': Harold Bloom's Daemonic Shades
14. Face to Face with Giorgio Agamben or, the other in love 15. Responsibilities of J or, Aphorism's Other: Criticism's Transformation
Bibliography
Index

A significant work of original thought addressing the interface between literature and theory.

'Julian Wolfreys continue to impress, as one of the finest readers and teachers of literature today, with this new book. From the original and multi-layered readings of novels from Dickens and Hardy to Ann Bronte and Percival Everett, Wolfreys moves us into an almost visceral recognition of the changeable and interchangeable natures of fiction and critical theory. The pages on J Hillis Miller are a virtual tour de force that brings the four topics of the title into brilliant focus.'- Juliet Flower MacCannell, Professor Emerita of English and Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine, USA