P.N. Furbank

P.N. Furbank is general editor, with W.R. Owens, of The Works of Daniel Defoe. His other books include Unholy Pleasure, E.M. Forster: A Life and Behalf.

In the LRB Archive:

• Are your fingers pointed or blunt?: Medical myths of homosexuality · 22 July 2004

  • Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century by Graham Robb

• Enfield was nothing: Norman Lewis · 18 December 2003

  • The Tomb in Seville by Norman Lewis

• Flower Power: Jocelyn Brooke · 8 May 2003

  • 'The Military Orchid' and Other Novels by Jocelyn Brooke

• Like Steam Escaping: Denton Welch · 17 October 2002

  • Denton Welch: Writer and Artist by James Methuen-Campbell

• A Little ‘Foreign’ on Iris Origo · 27 June 2002

  • Iris Origo: Marchesa of Val d’Orcia by Caroline Moorehead

• Escape of a Half-Naked Sailor on ‘Three Queer Lives’ · 29 November 2001

  • Three Queer Lives: An Alternative Biography of Fred Barnes, Naomi Jacob and Arthur Marshall by Paul Bailey

• Lord Fitzcricket on the composer’s life · 21 May 1998

  • Lord Berners: The Last Eccentric by Mark Amory

• Kafka’s Dog · 13 November 1997

  • The Treasure Chest by Johann Peter Hebel, translated by John Hibberd

• Confounding the Apes · 22 August 1996

  • The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, translated by Allen Mandelbaum
  • The Inferno of Dante. A New Verse Translation by Robert Pinsky, illustrated by Michael Mazur
  • Dante’s Hell translated by Steve Ellis

• If the French were shorter in Flaubert’s day, did they need to be less fat in order to be called ‘fat’? · 4 January 1996

  • Cross Channel by Julian Barnes

• Dress for Success · 2 November 1995

  • Monsieur d’Eon is a Woman: A Tale of Political Intrigue and Sexual Masquerade by Gary Kates

• Oppositional · 3 August 1995

  • Emulation: Making Artists for Revolutionary France by Thomas Crow

• Nesting Time · 26 January 1995

  • The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki, translated by Ian Maclean

• ‘If I Could Only Draw Like That’ · 24 November 1994

  • The Gentle Art of Making Enemies by James McNeill Whistler
  • James McNeill Whistler: Beyond the Myth by Ronald Anderson and Anne Koval

• What sort of man? · 18 August 1994

  • The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson. Vol. I: 1854-April 1874; Vol. II: April 1874-July 1879 edited by Bradford Booth and Ernest Mehew

• Jolly Bad Luck · 24 March 1994

  • Letters from a Peruvian Woman by Françoisc de Graffigny, translated by David Kornacker

• Sartre’s Absent Whippet · 24 February 1994

  • The Psychology of Social Class by Michael Argyle

• Unhappy Man · 22 July 1993

  • The Lives of Michel Foucault by David Macey
  • The Passion of Michel Foucault by James Miller

• On wanting to be a diner not a dish · 3 December 1992

  • The Rituals of Dinner by Margaret Visser

• Falling for Desmoulins · 20 August 1992

  • A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel

• Galiani’s Strangeness · 27 February 1992

  • A Woman, a Man and Two Kingdoms: The Story of Madame d’Epinay and the Abbé Galiani by Francis Steegmuller

• More than one world · 5 December 1991

  • D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years 1885-1912 by John Worthen
  • The Letters of D.H. Lawrence, Vol. VI: 1927-28 edited by James Boulton, Margaret Boulton and Gerald Lacy

• Jingling his spurs · 10 October 1991

  • Private Words: Letters and Diaries from the Second World War edited by Ronald Blythe

• Kermode’s Changing Times · 7 March 1991

  • The Uses of Error by Frank Kermode

• Condy’s Fluid · 25 October 1990

  • A War Imagined: The First World War and English Culture by Samuel Hynes
  • Killing in Verse and Prose, and Other Essays by Paul Fussell

• Walking like Swinburne · 12 July 1990

  • Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant by Philip Hoare

• In the Golfo Placido · 9 October 1986

  • The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad. Vol. II: 1898-1902 edited by Frederick Karl and Laurence Davies

• Early Lives · 5 June 1986

  • The Inner I: British Literary Autobiography of the 20th Century by Brian Finney

• Sick mother be damned · 6 March 1986

  • Bernard Shaw’s Collected Letters. Vol. III: 1911-1925 edited by Dan Laurence

• Secret Purposes · 19 September 1985

  • Defoe and the Idea of Fiction: 1713-1719 by Geoffrey Sill
  • The Elusive Daniel Defoe by Laura Curtis
  • Dofoe’s Fiction by Ian Bell
  • Realism, Myth and History in Defoe’s Fiction by Maximillian Novak

• Is it a crime? · 6 June 1985

  • Peterley Harvest: The Private Diary of David Peterley edited by Michael Holroyd

• Picshuas · 18 October 1984

  • Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusion of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866) by H.G. Wells
  • H.G. Wells in Love: Postscript to an Experiment in Autobiography edited by G.P. Wells
  • The Man with a Nose, and the Other Uncollected Short Stories of H.G. Wells edited by J.R. Hammond

• Henry James’s Christmas · 19 July 1984

  • Henry James Letters. Vol. IV: 1895-1915 edited by Leon Edel

• Where did he get it? · 3 May 1984

  • Joseph Conrad: A Chronicle by Zdzislaw Najder, translated by Halina Carroll-Najder
  • Conrad under Familial Eyes edited by Zdzislaw Najder, translated by Halina Carroll-Najder

• Good Sausages · 20 October 1983

  • Maiden Voyage A Voice Through a Cloud by Denton Welch

• Worries · 5 May 1983

  • John Galsworthy: A Reassessment by Alec Fréchet, translated by Denis Mahaffey

• Flirting · 18 November 1982

  • The English World: History, Character and People edited by Robert Blake
  • The English Gentleman: The Rise and Fall of an Ideal by Philip Mason

• The Earnestness of Being Important · 19 August 1982

  • John Buchan: A Memoir by William Buchan
  • The Best Short Stories of John Buchan, Vol. II edited by David Daniell

• Skiving · 1 April 1982

  • You, You and You: The People Out of Step with World War Two by Pete Grafton

• Fools · 15 October 1981

  • Ford Madox Ford: Prose and Politics by Robert Green

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