Marilyn Butler

Marilyn Butler is Rector of Exeter College, Oxford. She is the author of Jane Austen and the War of Ideas and of Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries.

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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