Reading Cure
John Sutherland, 10 November 1988
The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals. Vol. IV: 1824-1900
edited by Walter Houghton, Esther Rhoads Houghton and Jean HarrisSlingerland.
Toronto/Routledge, 826 pp., £95, January 1988,0 7102 1442 1 Show More
edited by Walter Houghton, Esther Rhoads Houghton and Jean HarrisSlingerland.
Toronto/Routledge, 826 pp., £95, January 1988,
Circulation: Defoe, Dickens and the Economies of the Novel
by David Trotter.
Macmillan, 148 pp., £27.50, October 1988,0 333 40542 0 Show More
by David Trotter.
Macmillan, 148 pp., £27.50, October 1988,
From Copyright to Copperfield
by Alexander Welsh.
Harvard, 200 pp., £19.95, December 1987,0 674 32342 4 Show More
by Alexander Welsh.
Harvard, 200 pp., £19.95, December 1987,
“... The Wellesley Index originated in its founding editor Walter Houghton’s The Victorian Frame of Mind, 1830-1870 (1957), a manual which was influential among students of the Sixties. Houghton’s book took as its starting-point the fact of a collective Victorian mentality – a kind of public overmind. Although this Victorian mind might contain oppositions within itself (the so-called ‘Victorian debate’), it was nevertheless governed by structures of thought which, if not consensual, were in the largest sense rational and intellectual – a set of ideas articulated by a clerisy ... ”
