Richard Bradford, University of Ulster at Coleraine, Jan Jederzejewski University of Ulster at Coleraine, Duncan Wu, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Part 1 Life and Contexts; Part 2 Work; Part 3 Criticism;

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