Book Reviews
Autumn/ September 1967
Shorter Reviews: The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton
The Devil Drives: A Life of Sir Richard Burton by Fawn M. Brodie. W. W. Norton and Company, $6.95. Stereotypes are treacherous: they usually contain just enough truth to obscure […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1966
Dickens and the Scandal-Mongers
Dickens and the Scandal-Mongers by Edward Wagenknecht. University of Oklahoma Press, $5.00. Humanities professors look with awe upon the accomplishments of computers, assembly lines, mass advertising, mass marketing, and—wonder […]
Reviews: Dickens and Some Others: Special Review Section
Summer 1965
Critic of the Hour
Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey by Steven Marcus. Basic Books, $5.95. Dickens did not suffer critical fools gladly. He felt that all great writers were bitten and stung by the […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1962
Fire, Hand, and Gate: Dickens’ Great Expectations
Great Expectations opens on a raw afternoon in a nettle-choked churchyard. Pip stands before the graves of his father, mother, and five brothers. For the first time in his young […]