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Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers.

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From: Contemporary Review
Date: 19951101
Author:Glasgow, Eric

John Sutherland. Macmillan. Hardback 35[pound]. Paperback 12.99[pounds]. 0-333-64422-0.

Victorian fiction -- Dickens, Thackeray, Bulwer Lytton, Charles Reade, Mrs. Gaskell, the Brontes, George Eliot, and the rest -- is inevitably an enormous and well-covered path, about which, at any rate in its generality, it is no longer very easy to achieve much originality or freshness. John Sutherland -- Professor of Modern English Literature at University College, London -- has justified his new book by engineering the different approach of studying the whole theme in terms of how the ...

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