In the 1990s it was the French theorists such as Derrida, Lacan and
Foucault who, with their stress on linguistic play and
undecidability, took Victorian Studies by storm; now, it seems, it
is the Germans who are coming. In Roger Ebbatson's new book, Marx,
Simmel, Benjamin and, above all, Heidegger are unleashed on a range
of Victorian texts -- some unsuspecting, some all too suspecting.
The results are alarming: Ebbatson begins with Tennyson
overshadowed by empire and homosocial tensions and ends with Conan
Doyle writing about a bicycle belonging to a character called
Heidegger. In between, he makes bone-shaking progress over a
Victorian terrain marked out by Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies,
Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Louis Stevenson; along the way,
Ebbatson considers shipwrecks, money, nature, the South Seas
Mission, and final solutions'. Tennyson, we discover, was afraid of
his own shadow, Hopkins's greatest poem was created by erratic
compasses, Hardy wrote like Kafka, Stevenson was drawn to murderous
missionaries, and Conan Doyle applauded the concentration camp.
Ebbatson shows us that what the Germans bring to our understanding
of the nineteenth century is a terrible awareness of the darkest
moments of the darkest moments of the twentieth century.
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