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Robert douglas fairhurst biography of barack


Robert Douglas-Fairhurst gives a new twist to the genre of Dickens biographies..

I completed my BA at the University of Cambridge in , before spending a year as a Procter Visiting Fellow at Princeton University. In I started a PhD at Cambridge, which I completed in I was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Fitzwilliam College in , and the following year I joined Emmanuel College as a Fellow in English.

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst recently gave a talk at the London Review Bookshop on his latest book Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces.

  • In “The Turning Point,” Robert Douglas-Fairhurst argues that 1851 was pivotal to the novelist and literature itself.
  • Robert Douglas-Fairhurst gives a new twist to the genre of Dickens biographies.
  • Following his acclaimed life of Dickens, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates the tangled history of two lives and two books.
  • Many parts of our lives are defined by turning points: fleeting or extended moments where life as we know it is changed forever.

    • I moved to Magdalen College, Oxford, in as a Fellow and Tutor and CUF Lecturer in English Language and Literature. In I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

    I have published widely in the field of nineteenth-century literature.

    Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist (Harvard University Press, ), was featured on ‘The Review Show’ (BBC2), and won the Duff Cooper Prize for biography; it was also selected as a book of the year in the Irish Times, Library Journal, New Statesman, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, TLS, and Wall Street Journal, and has since been translated into Chinese.

    The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret H