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Peter D. Mathews

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Peter D. Mathews is Professor of English Literature at the University of Macau. His research focuses mainly on modern and contemporary British fiction, Australian literature, and literary theory.

He is the author of Lacan the Charlatan, published in the Palgrave Lacan Series in 2020, English Magic and Imperial Madness, published by McFarland Books in 2021, and From Poet to Novelist: The Orphic Journey of John A. Scott in the Cambria Australian Literature Series in 2022.

His next book, Rodney Hall and the Global Imagination, will be published in the Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature series in 2026.

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Peter D. Mathews Thank you for your question/comment, Lisa. Yes, N is a true masterpiece, and it is full of references and in-jokes pointing back to Scott's earlier wo…moreThank you for your question/comment, Lisa. Yes, N is a true masterpiece, and it is full of references and in-jokes pointing back to Scott's earlier works that make reading it with a larger context even more rewarding. His earlier career as a poet can be difficult (both to find copies of the texts and to understand the obscurity of the language), but if you follow the thread of his work there is unity of vision that is extremely impressive. Naturally, that is the thread which structures my own study. I'm halfway through writing the book at the moment. I have a contract with Cambria Press's Australia Literature Series, so it should be published with them in 2022.(less)
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Interview at Dialectical Thoughts

Here is an interview I did with the blog Dialectical Thoughts about my book Lacan the Charlatan:

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