Books by John Schad

Explores the life and thought of Walter Benjamin, imaginatively examining its implications in the political context of a post-War London estate. This title explores the emergence of Benjamin's thinking from a politicised Jewish theology forced to confront the rise of Nazism.

This book will fascinate anyoneinterested in the Victorians or theory. Each chapter pairs a poet with atheorist: Robert Browning meets Jacques Derrida; Christina Rossetti encountersLuce Irigaray; Matthew Arnold is after Michel Foucault; Gerald Manley Hopkinsdreams with Jacques Lacan; and Elizabeth Barrett Browning haunts Helene Cixous. -- .