The Unexpected Professor - An Oxford Life in Books  ( Man Booker Prize Committee Chairperson)

The Unexpected Professor - An Oxford Life in Books ( Man Booker Prize Committee Chairperson)

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Published by Faber & Faber, 2015, softcover, index, 360 pages, condition: as new.

John Carey is a British literary critic, and emeritus Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. He is known for his anti-elitist views on high culture, as expounded in several books. He has twice chaired the Booker Prize committee and chaired the judging panel for the first Man Booker International Prize. 

'Among the wealthy elders, my views gave some offence. Two or three people walked out of my lecture in Hamburg. At a dinner in Oldenburg I was seated next to a senior academic who berated me for my leftist leanings - not what he expected of an Oxford professor...'

John Carey, best known for his provocative stance on the arts and the academic establishment, looks back on his journey from an ordinary background to Oxford's oldest literary professorship. Books formed the backbone of his life: from Biggles in his boyhood home to G. K. Chesterton in his West London grammar school to rigorous scholarship on Milton, Donne and many others.

In this warm and funny memoir, he remembers afresh his encounters with the great (and not so great) works of English literature - the rewards, fulfilment and sheer pleasure to be found there.

John Carey is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His books include studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, The Intellectuals and the MassesWhat Good Are the Arts? and a life of William Golding.



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