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In the course of its critique this book inspects, with startling originality, texts from the Bible to Jane Eyre, Hamlet to Batman, Tristram Shandy to Finnegans Wake, concentrating particularly on classic nineteenth-century realist novels such as Emma, Hard Times, Bleak House, Middlemarch, The Trumpet Major and Heart of Darkness, as well as classic twentieth-century novels, including Beckett's Watt and Golding's Rites of Passage.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49531094368529,"sku":"GOR004534590","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0631151982.jpg?v=1751008903"},{"product_id":"british-writers-of-the-thirties-book-valentine-cunningham-9780192122674","title":"British Writers of the Thirties","description":"This wide-ranging discussion of British writing and writers in that momentous and notorious decade offers interpretations of central texts of the period, not in linguistic isolation, but in the contexts - social, political, historical, ideological, and personal - in which they were written. 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Also represented are many of the writers who are on the cusp of the central canon.Here is unique access to the immense and arresting variety of Victorian poetic producers - the street balladists and self-taught working-class poets, the Pre-Raphaelites, Spasmodics, medievalizers, university wits, social realists, hymn-writers, satirists, parodists, story-tellers, symbolists and decadents - all variously engaged in the big issues of the time - faith and doubt, sexuality, gender roles, war, imperialism, poverty, industrialism, the city, the natural world, the functions of writing and criticism:  everything, in short, from snow to dentists, cod-liver oil to angels in the house, railway trains to hexameters. 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