In this course Dr. Cunningham discusses what being a Protestant person in the world of everyday living and thinking has meant historically and classically as represented in Shakespeare's Hamlet, John Milton's Paradise Lost and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

Valentine Cunningham is Professor of English Language and Literature, Oxford University, and Fellow and Senior Tutor in English Literature, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has written a number of books including Everywhere Spoken Against: Dissent in the Victorian Novel, British Writers of the Thirties, In The Reading Goal: Postmodernity, Texts, and History and Reading After Theory. BA (Keble College), MA, Dphil(St. John's College)