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The latest volume in Oxford's new edition of Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen, this volume brings together Stephen's writings on the novel and journalism.
List of contents
- Introduction
- The Relation of Novels to Life (excerpts)
- Woods v. Russell
- Religious Journalism
- The Sunday Papers
- Our Civilization
- Newspaper English
- The Enigma (excerpts)
- The Green Hand (excerpts)
- Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures (excerpts)
- Groans of the Britons
- Barry Lyndon
- Mr. Dickens as a Politician
- Railroad Bookselling
- Little Dorrit
- Light Literature and the Saturday Review
- Madame Bovary
- The License of Modern Novelists
- The Edinburgh Review and Modern Novelists
- Light Literature in France
- La Daniella
- Balzac
- Mr. Dickens
- Gentlemen Authors
- Manon Lescaut (excerpts)
- The Spectator
- Novels and Novelists (excerpts)
- The Revue des Deux Mondes on English Romance (excerpts)
- Guy Livingstone (excerpts)
- The Romance of Vice
- Sentimentalism (excerpts) (1858)
- The History of British Journalism (excerpts)
- The Minister's Wooing (excerpts)
- A Tale of Two Cities
- Journalism (excerpt)
- Novelists' Common Forms
- Mr. Thackeray (excerpts)
- Senior's Essays on Fiction (excerpts)
- Detectives in Fiction and in Real Life
- Sentimentalism (excerpts) (1864)
- Mr. Matthew Arnold and his Countrymen
- The Mote and the Beam
- Mr. Matthew Arnold amongst the Philistines (excerpts)
- Mr. Arnold on the Middle Classes (excerpts)
- Mr. Matthew Arnold on Culture
About the author
Christopher Ricks was educated at the University of Oxford; he was Professor of English at the University of Bristol and the University of Cambridge, and Professor of Humanities at Boston University. His publications range widely from Tennyson to Bob Dylan, and he is co-editor of the Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen.
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The latest volume in Oxford's new edition of Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen, this volume brings together Stephen's writings on the novel and journalism.
