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Peter D. Mathews

Peter D. Mathews is Professor of English literature at Hanyang University in Seoul, South Korea. He is the author of Lacan the Charlatan (2020), English Magic and Imperial Madness (2021), and From Poet to Novelist: The Orphic Journey of John A. Scott (2022).

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Hanyang University, South Korea

Peter D. Mathews

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Peter D. Mathews
Review of Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture by Paul Giles

Backgazing: Reverse Time in Modernist Culture by Paul Giles is an erudite and perceptive account of how the literature of Australia and New Zealand entwine…

30 September 2022
Peter D. Mathews
Who is My Neighbour?: Tim Winton’s ‘Aquifer’ and the Ghosts of Cloudstreet

The psychology of guilt as debt is a recurrent theme in Tim Winton’s fiction. A number of scholars have recently examined the theme of haunting…

26 February 2017
Peter D. Mathews
On the Genealogy of Democracy: Reading Peter Carey’s Parrot and Olivier in America

Discusses Carey's examining of 'the historical rise of democracy in a way that challenges the prevailing consensus, from Churchill to Fukuyama, that this system represents…

1 June 2012