Literature in our lives : talking about texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

Author(s)

Richard Jacobs

Routledge, 2020

Includes bibliographical references and index

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 / 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