Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a British author. He is professor of English Literature at Magdalen College, Oxford.

He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Books Victorian Afterlives: The Shaping of Influence in Nineteenth-Century Literature (Oxford University Press, 2002) Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist (Harvard University Press, 2011) The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland (Harvill Secker; Harvard University Press, 2015) The Turning Point: A Year in the Life of Charles Dickens (Jonathan Cape/Alfred A. Knopf, 2021) Metamorphosis: A Life in Pieces (Jonathan Cape, 2023) Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading (Vintage, 2025) (ed.) A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Books (Oxford World's Classics, 2006) (ed.) Great Expectations (Oxford World's Classics, 2008) (ed. with Seamus Perry) Tennyson Among the Poets: Bicentenary Essays (Oxford University Press, 2009) (ed.) London Labour and the London Poor: A Selected Edition (Oxford World's Classics, 2010) (ed.) The Water-Babies (Oxford World's Classics, 2013) (ed.) The Collected Peter Pan (Oxford World's Classics, 2019) (ed.) A Tale of Two Cities (Norton, 2019)