John Mullan

John Mullan’s What Matters in Jane Austen? came out in 2014.

In the LRB Archive:

• Beastliness: Eric Griffiths · 23 May 2019

  • If Not Critical by Eric Griffiths, edited by Freya Johnston
  • The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry by Eric Griffiths

• Full of Glory: The Inklings · 19 November 2015

  • The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings by Philip Zaleski and Carol Zaleski

• Noticing and Not Noticing: Consciousness in Austen · 20 November 2014

  • The Hidden Jane Austen by John Wiltshire

• As if Life Depended on It: With the Leavisites · 12 September 2013

  • Memoirs of a Leavisite: The Decline and Fall of Cambridge English by David Ellis
  • English as a Vocation: The ‘Scrutiny’ Movement by Christopher Hilliard
  • The Two Cultures?: The Significance of C.P. Snow by F.R. Leavis

• Restless Daniel: Defoe · 20 July 2006

  • The Life of Daniel Defoe: A Critical Biography by John Richetti
  • A Political Biography of Daniel Defoe by P.N. Furbank and W.R. Owens

• Why always Dorothea?: How caricature can be sharp perception · 5 May 2005

  • The One v. the Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel by Alex Woloch

• Zone of Anecdotes: Betrothed to Christ and in a muddle · 17 February 2005

  • The Divine Husband by Francisco Goldman

• Urban Messthetics: black and Asian writers in London · 18 November 2004

  • London Calling: How Black and Asian Writers Imagined a City by Sukhdev Sandhu

• Taking Sides: on the high road with Bonnie Prince Charlie · 22 January 2004

  • The ’45: Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Untold Story of the Jacobite Rising by Christopher Duffy
  • Samuel Johnson in Historical Context edited by J.C.D. Clark and Howard Erskine-Hill

• Hidden Consequences: Byron · 6 November 2003

  • Byron: Life and Legend by Fiona MacCarthy

• Catching the Prester John Bug: Umberto Eco · 8 May 2003

  • Baudolino by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

• High-Meriting, Low-Descended: The Unpolished Pamela · 12 December 2002

  • Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson, edited by Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely

• Shandying It: Sterne’s Foibles · 6 June 2002

  • Laurence Sterne: A Life by Ian Campbell Ross

• Unpranked Lyre: The Laziness of Thomas Gray · 13 December 2001

  • Thomas Gray: A Life by Robert Mack

• Malice: Fanny Burney · 23 August 2001

  • Fanny Burney: A Biography by Claire Harman
  • Fanny Burney: Her Life by Kate Chisholm
  • Faithful Handmaid: Fanny Burney at the Court of King George III by Hester Davenport

• Bumming and Booing: William Wordsworth · 5 April 2001

  • Wordsworth: A Life by Juliet Barker
  • The Hidden Wordsworth by Kenneth Johnston
  • Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of the 1790s by David Bromwich

• Vibrations of Madame de V***: Malcolm Bradbury · 20 July 2000

  • To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury

• Clubs of Quidnuncs · 17 February 2000

  • The Dunciad in Four Books by Alexander Pope, edited by Valerie Rumbold

• The Labour of Being at Ease · 28 October 1999

  • Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Volume I by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, edited by Philip Ayres
  • Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times: Volume II by Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, edited by Philip Ayres

• Plenty of Pinching: The Sad End of Swift · 29 October 1998

  • Jonathan Swift by Victoria Glendinning

• Freak Anatomist: Hilary Mantel · 1 October 1998

  • The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel

• Cultivating Cultivation: English culture · 18 June 1998

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

• Under-Labourer · 19 September 1996

  • The Correspondence of Thomas Warton edited by David Fairer

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