In this book, leading writers and theorists from German history, including Marx, Simmel, Benjamin, and, above all, Heidegger, are unleashed on a range of Victorians with alarming results. The work begins with Tennyson being overshadowed by empire and homosocial tensions and ends with Conan Doyle writing about a bicycle belonging to a character called Heidegger. In between, author Roger Ebbatson makes bone-shaking progress across a Victorian terrain marked out by Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Louis Stevenson while considering topics that include shipwrecks,...

In this book, leading writers and theorists from German history, including Marx, Simmel, Benjamin, and, above all, Heidegger, are unleashed on a range of Victorians with alarming results. The work begins with Tennyson being overshadowed by empire and homosocial tensions and ends with Conan Doyle writing about a bicycle belonging to a character called Heidegger. In between, author Roger Ebbatson makes bone-shaking progress across a Victorian terrain marked out by Thomas Hardy, Richard Jefferies, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Louis Stevenson while considering topics that include shipwrecks,...