An Infinity of Novels
Philip Horne, 14 September 1989
A Short Guide to the World Novel: From Myth to Modernism
by Gilbert Phelps.
Routledge, 397 pp., £30, September 1988,0 415 00765 8 Show More
by Gilbert Phelps.
Routledge, 397 pp., £30, September 1988,
The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction
by John Sutherland.
Longman, 696 pp., £35, March 1989,0 582 49040 5 Show More
by John Sutherland.
Longman, 696 pp., £35, March 1989,
The Haunted Study: A Social History of the English Novel 1875-1914
by Peter Keating.
Secker, 533 pp., £30, September 1989,0 436 23248 0 Show More
by Peter Keating.
Secker, 533 pp., £30, September 1989,
“... houses and individuals from fools and rogues, so that credit could be given where it was due: to George Smith for instance, as the ‘godfather to Esmond’, saving Thackeray from the scatty habits he lapsed into when he wrote for serialisation, and providing support for the more measured creation of an elegiac masterpiece. In the new Companion the ... ”