The similarity between Molière and Dickens illuminates what is essential to the power of each: the insight into self-deception that … More
Tag: Dickens
158. (George Eliot)
Six, and possibly seven, models were available for the realist novel in the nineteenth century. First, the novel of social … More
127. (George Eliot)
This post will open with George Eliot and then drift, possibly to return. For a starting point, consider one of … More
101. (Javier Marias)
“Souls” thinned out long ago. And when Javier Marias writes, in his campus novel, and Oxford novel, All Souls, that “Dewar … More
77. (R.H. Hutton)
One of the chief differences between eighteenth- and nineteenth-century voices of critical prose is that the former wrote for the … More
58. (Leo Tolstoy)
Rather than say anything about Tolstoy, I want to try to explain what I think would be the sort of … More
Critical Provisions 