Marilyn Butler

In the LRB Archive:

• Simplicity: What Jane Austen Read · 5 March 1998

  • Jane Austen : A Life by David Nokes
  • Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin

• The Verity of Verity · 1 August 1996

  • Essays in Appreciation by Christopher Ricks

• Malvolio’s Story · 8 February 1996

  • Dirt and Deity: A Life of Robert Burns by Ian McIntyre

• Burying Scott · 7 September 1995

  • The Life of Walter Scott: A Critical Biography by John Sutherland

• Why edit socially? · 20 October 1994

  • Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, Vol. VII edited by Jerome McGann
  • The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse edited by Jerome McGann

• Wordsworth and the Well-Hidden Corpse · 6 August 1992

  • The Lyrical Ballads: Longman Annotated Texts edited by Michael Mason
  • Strange Power of Speech: Wordsworth, Coleridge and Literary Possession by Susan Eilenberg
  • The Politics of Nature: Wordsworth and Some Contemporaries by Nicholas Roe

• Laundering Britain’s Past · 12 September 1991

  • The Birth of the Modern: World Society 1815-1830 by Paul Johnson

• Versatile Monster · 5 May 1988

  • In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity and 19th-century Writing by Chris Baldick

• Jane Austen’s Word Process · 25 June 1987

  • Computation into Criticism: A Study of Jane Austen’s Novels and an Experiment in Method by J.F Burrows

• Outside the text · 19 December 1985

  • The Beauty of Inflections: Literary Investigations in Historical Method and Theory by Jerome McGann
  • The Politics of Language: 1791-1819 by Olivia Smith

• Amor vincit Vinnie · 21 February 1985

  • Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

• East Hoathly makes a night of it · 6 December 1984

  • The Diary of Thomas Turner 1754-1765 edited by David Vaisey
  • John Clare’s Autobiographical Writings edited by Eric Robinson
  • John Clare: The Journals, Essays, and the Journey from Essex edited by Anne Tibble
  • The Natural History Prose Writings of John Clare edited by Margaret Grainger
  • John Clare and the Folk Tradition by George Deacon

• Women and the Novel · 7 June 1984

  • Stanley and the Women by Kingsley Amis

• Literature and the Left · 18 August 1983

  • English Literature in History: 1730-80: An Equal, Wide Survey edited by Raymond Williams, by John Barrell
  • English Literature in History: 1350-1400: Medieval Readers and Writers edited by Raymond Williams, by Janet Coleman
  • English Literature in History: 1780-1830: Pastoral and Politics edited by Raymond Williams, by Roger Sales
  • The Cambridge Guide to English Literature by Michael Stapleton

• Three feet on the ground · 7 July 1983

  • William Wordsworth: The Borders of Vision by Jonathan Wordsworth
  • William Wordsworth: The Poetry of Grandeur and of Tenderness by David Pirie
  • Benjamin the Waggoner by William Wordsworth, edited by Paul Betz

• Julia Caesar · 17 March 1983

  • The Prince and the Wild Geese by Brigid Brophy

• Success · 18 November 1982

  • The Trouble of an Index: Byron’s Letters and Journals, Vol. XII edited by Leslie Marchand
  • Lord Byron: Selected Letters and Journals edited by Leslie Marchand
  • Byron by Frederic Raphael
  • Byron’s Political and Cultural Influence in 19th-Century Europe: A Symposium edited by Paul Graham Trueblood
  • Byron and Joyce through Homer by Hermione de Almeida
  • Byron: A Poet Before His Public by Philip Martin

• Moments · 2 September 1982

  • The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. I: Medieval Literature Part One: Chaucer and the Alliterative Tradition, Vol. II: The Age of Shakespeare, Vol. III: From Donne to Marvell, Vol. IV: From Dryden to Johnson edited by Boris Ford
  • Medieval Writers and their Work: Middle English Literature and its Background by J.A. Burrow
  • Contemporary Writers Series: Saul Bellow, Joe Orton, John Fowles, Kurt Vonnegut, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Pynchon by Malcolm Bradbury, C.W.E. Bigsby, Peter Conradi, Jerome Klinkowitz and Blake Morrison

• Keeping up with Jane Austen · 6 May 1982

  • An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym

• Priapus Knight · 18 March 1982

  • The Arrogant Connoisseur: Richard Payne Knight 1751-1824 edited by Michael Clarke and Nicholas Penny

• Death in Greece · 17 September 1981

  • Byron’s Letter and Journals. Vol. XI: For Freedom’s Battle edited by Leslie Marchand
  • Byron: The Complete Poetical Works edited by Jerome McGann
  • Red Shelley by Paul Foot
  • Ugo Foscolo, Poet of Exile by Glauco Cambon

• Jane Austen’s Latest · 21 May 1981

  • Jane Austen’s ‘Sir Charles Grandison’ edited by Brian Southam

• Action and Suffering · 16 April 1981

  • Ideas and the Novel by Mary McCarthy

• Reviewers · 22 January 1981

  • Three-Quarter Face by Penelope Gilliatt
  • Show People by Kenneth Tynan
  • When the lights go down by Pauline Kael

• No Fear of Fanny · 20 November 1980

  • Fanny by Erica Jong
  • The Heroine’s Text by Nancy Miller

• The Education of Philip French · 16 October 1980

  • Three Honest Men: Edmund Wilson, F.R. Leavis, Lionel Trilling edited by Philip French
  • F.R. Leavis by William Walsh

• Rise and Fall of Radio Features · 7 August 1980

  • Louis MacNeice in the BBC by Barbara Coulton
  • Best Radio Plays of 1979

• Bloom’s Gnovel · 3 July 1980

  • The Flight to Lucifer: A Gnostic Fantasy by Harold Bloom

• The Professor · 3 April 1980

  • A Fantasy of Reason: The Life and Thought of William Godwin by Don Locke

• Walter Scott’s Post-War Europe · 7 February 1980

  • Walter Scott and the Historical Imagination by David Brown

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