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“... of such portentousness. Indeed, some of its chapters could even profit from a dash of it, as (like Patrick Parrinder on science fiction) they mostly give us plot summaries along with the odd low-key critical comment. Wendy Lesser ends her hymn to Penelope Fitzgerald by teetering on the brink of throwing a Gwyneth Paltrow: ‘when I spoke about her in Los ...”

“... Cambridge introductions to ‘British and Irish Authors’, a high-quality series which includes Patrick Parrinder on James Joyce and John Batchelor on H.G. Wells. Barnard gets a great deal into his short book, presenting a rather different Keats from that of the many other Keats scholars and biographers. Keats’s vividness has been present to his ...”

“... anniversary* by dealing in its current number with theoretical issues: but to no decisive end. Patrick Parrinder refers, in an aside, to ‘the mad rush to theorise literary studies in the past few years’, and to ‘the reductiveness of much current theory, its overweening ambitiousness and vanity, the incommensurability of different ...”