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Claudia Johnson: The history of the novel, 8 March 2001
The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel: From Richardson to George Eliot
by Leah Price.
Cambridge, 224 pp., £35, September 2000,0 521 78208 2 Show More
by Leah Price.
Cambridge, 224 pp., £35, September 2000,
“... Most modern readers will never have heard of Beauties of Sterne, the Wit and Wisdom of Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot’s Sayings, or the Thomas Hardy Calendar, and the few who have actually looked inside such volumes will have done so only because the ‘real’ copy of the novel they were seeking had already been taken ... ”