1st Edition

A Victorian Art of Fiction Essays on the Novel in British Periodicals 1870-1900

Edited By John Olmsted Copyright 1979
680 Pages
by Routledge

680 Pages
by Routledge

680 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1979, this collection of thirty-nine essays on the novel drawn from seventeen periodicals demonstrates the primary concerns of those discussing the nature and purpose of prose fiction in the period from 1870 to 1900. The essays reflect what was thought and said about the art of fiction and reveal what journalists of these periodicals thought were the most urgent critical... Read more

Preface; Introduction; THE ANTHOLOGY

Biography

John Olmsted