Michael Neve, 8 November 1990
The Double in 19th-Century Fiction by John Herdman.
Macmillan, 174 pp., £35, August 1990, 9780333490242Show More Romanticism and the Sciences edited by Andrew Cunningham and Nicholas Jardine.
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Routledge, 248 pp., £35, September 1990, 0 415 04096 5Show More Show More“... he trying to keep us safe, inside the yard?) the literary study of doubles roots itself in Christian accounts of the world, describing how, by trick, by election or by sin, characters break open, split apart, see things that may be themselves, even meet the return of their true selves. And, of course, get to meet the Devil. Over a dram, or out in the ...”