Nonfiction
Summer 1986
Alluring Vacancies in the Victorian Character
“I have a great deal of difficulty in beginning to write my portion of these pages, for I know I am not clever.”1 Even hardened critics refuse to believe Dickens’s […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1985
Victorian Realities
Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in Nineteenth-Century England by Martin Meisel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984. xix + 471 pages + illustrations. $52.50. Restless Angels: The Friendship of Six […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1983
Dickens and Women
Dickens and Women by Michael Slater. Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press, 1983. xii + 465 pages. $28.50 Charles Dickens did not understand women: this accusation has been levelled from his […]