THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER IN A BRAND NEW EDITION'Enchanting...the most engagingly boffiny book imaginable.' Spectator Does Becky kill Jos at the end of Vanity Fair? Why does no one notice that Hetty is pregnant in Adam Bede? How, exactly, does Victor Frankenstein make his monster? Readers of Victorian fiction often find themselves tripping up on seeming anomalies, enigmas and mysteries in their favourite novels. In Is Heathcliff a Murderer? John Sutherland investigates 34 conundrums of nineteenth-century fiction, paying homage to the most rewarding of critical activities: close reading and the pleasures of good-natured pedantry
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Jon Sutherland
EAN: 9781785782992
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 297 g
HEIGHT: 198 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Icon Books
DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-11-02
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / General
WIDTH: 129 cm
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Book Themes:
Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
John Sutherland is Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus at University College London and an eminent scholar in the field of Victorian fiction, author of many works including The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. He has also written the bestselling popular titles Is Heathcliff a Murderer? and Can Jane Eyre be Happy?, and such scholarly jeux d'esprit as Curiosities of Literature.
