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London Review of Books Christmas Books

Cultivating Cultivation

John Mullan

  • The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the 18th Century by John Brewer

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John Mullan, who edited Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe for Everyman, is a professor of English at University College London. How Novels Work will appear in October.

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