Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

This major study examines a Victorian obsession with 'influence', the often unpredictable after-effects of words and actions, in fields as diverse as mesmerism and theology, literary theory, and sanitation reform. For writers such as Tennyson, FitzGerald, and Dickens, the idea is both a theoretical and a practical problem. Survival is not only what their writing critically examines, but also what it sets out to achieve.

Professor of English Literature and Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

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