First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Richard J. Lane is Professor of English at Malaspina University-College, Canada. His previous publications include Jean Baudrillard (Routledge, 2001), Beckett and Philosophy (2002), Contemporary British Fiction (2003), and Reading Walter Benjamin (2005).

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