Writing on the Wall: Selected Essays

A study in critical readership, this wide-ranging collection of essays challenges accepted theories on everything from classics such as Charlotte Brontë's Villette to more contemporary works like Margaret Atwood's Life Before Man. Explored are ideas of sexual subversion and queer politics. Literature's sacred cows are reevaluated, and new ways to explore both reading and writing are offered.

Author Biography: Patricia Duncker is a professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first novel, Hallucinating Foucault, won the Dillon's First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize and has been translated into nine languages. She is also the author of Seven Tales of Sex and Death and The Doctor.