John Peck
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American poet, Jungian analyst, editor and translator.
Books
Maritime fiction
"In this study, John Peck examines the cultural significance of maritime novels from Defoe through to Conrad. Focusing in particular on the image of the body, he illustrates how these works are built around the disparity between the masculine and often brutal regime of the ship and the civilized values of those who remain on the shore. It is an exploration of the relationship between national identity, fiction and the sea."--BOOK JACKET.
David Copperfield and Hard Times
The new critical approaches that have swept through literary criticism in recent years have transformed our sense of David Copperfield and Hard Times. There is now a new kind of understanding of how both novels emerge from and relate to the 1850s. In collecting together the most original and exciting innovative work on David Copperfield and Hard Times, this New Casebook offers the reader an excellent introduction to current critical thinking about Dickens.