Duff Cooper Prize
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Edition 56 (2011) Winner
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
ロバート・ダグラス＝フェアハースト
Rōbāto Doragasu-Feahāsuto
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Oxford
Career
- Occupations
- Author, Professor of English Literature
- Active Years
- 2002-2023
- Affiliations
- Magdalen College, Oxford
- Memberships
- Royal Society of Literature
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature
2002 Literary CriticismExplores the shaping of influence in 19th-century literature
Victorian literatureInfluence
Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
2011 BiographyThe invention of Charles Dickens as a novelist
DickensBiography
The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
2015 BiographySecret history of Lewis Carroll and Wonderland
Lewis CarrollAlice
The Turning Point: A Year in the Life of Charles Dickens
2021 BiographyA pivotal year in Charles Dickens' life
DickensBiography
Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces
2023 AutobiographyAutobiographical work in pieces
AutobiographyMetamorphosis
Bibliography
- Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature (2002)
- Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist (2011)
- The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland (2015)
- The Turning Point: A Year in the Life of Charles Dickens (2021)
- Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces (2023)
- (ed.) A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books (2006)
- (ed.) Great Expectations (2008)
- (ed. with Seamus Perry) Tennyson Among the Poets: Bicentenary Essays (2009)
- (ed.) London Labour and the London Poor: A Selected Edition (2010)
- (ed.) The Water-Babies (2013)
- (ed.) The Collected Peter Pan (2019)
- (ed.) A Tale of Two Cities (2019)
Legacy
British author and professor known for biographies and criticism on 19th-century literature, especially Dickens and Carroll.