By John Charles Olmsted
First released in 1979, this number of sixty-three essays at the novel drawn from ten periodicals demonstrates the first matters of these discussing the character and objective of prose fiction within the interval from 1830 to 1850. The essays mirror what used to be notion and acknowledged in regards to the artwork of fiction and show what reporters of those periodicals notion have been the main pressing severe issues dealing with the operating reviewer.
Including an advent which assesses the problems raised by way of the easiest periodicals on the time, this anthology is designed to supply scholars of Victorian fiction and significant concept with a suite of essays at the artwork of fiction in a handy and sturdy shape.
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