John Dougill is currently a professor of British Culture at Ryukoku University in Kyoto, Japan, but lived for seven years in Oxford, and has written two popular guides, Oxford’s Famous Faces and Oxford: A Literary Guide as well as co-authoring Pubs of Oxford and Oxfordshire.
Oxford In English Literature ((AuthorHouse) was first published in 1998 in the US, but has now been revised for a new UK paperback edition, bringing the history up to date, starting in the Middle Ages and ending with Philip Pullman’s Lyra’s Oxford.
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