G. A. Lawrence’s Guy Livingstone represents a briefly popular trend toward “manly” fiction. Its protagonist, as full of life and as hard as his surname suggests, embodies the masculine idea of strength unmitigated by any subtlety, particularly not in the… Read More ›
Charles Dickens’s seventh novel, first published in 20 serial parts between October 1846 and April 1848 with the complete title Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Retail, Wholesale, and for Exploration, marked what many critics agree to be… Read More ›
When George Meredith published his 1885 novel, Diana of the Crossways, women readers welcomed his heroine as representative of recent social reforms. The novel reflects its era’s obsessive interest in the breakdown of standards, which had been part of a… Read More ›
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