About the Author

Julian Wolfreys is Professor of Modern Literature and Culture with the Department of English and Drama at Loughborough University.

Reviews

In this compellingly complex book, Wolfreys brings phenomenological theory to bear on close textual criticism. He analyses how reading works for and on the reader, arguing that every act of writing is an act of reading, of interpretation. Wolfreys is interested in how reading works for the modern subject, and how readers and writers interpret the modern urban scene. This is not a book to read for the first time in a snatched moment or without full concentration. The rewards for spending time on it, however, are great; this is a very striking book that could only be written by an experienced critic.--Lucinda Matthews-Jones "Journal of Victorian Culture Online "