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James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) is still highly valued as a judge, as the historian of the criminal law of England, and as the author of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, a forthright disagreement with John Stuart Mill. Stephen's weekly journalism established him as a vigorous cross-examiner in the controversiesEDcultural, social, religious, political, moral, and philosophicalEDof his time (and duly, of our time). Collected here now are his essays on the novel and journalism, the co-operation and collusion of these two, their responsibilities and irresponsibilities. Written between 1855 and 1867, while Stephen prosecuted twin careers as barrister and journalist, these reviews bring to bear his formidable powers of mind and of phrasing, scrutinizing many deep and disconcerting novelistsEDDickens and Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe and E. C. Gaskell, Flaubert and Balzac. His work also weighs journalism in the scales: from Addison's The Spectator to the Crimean war correspondence of William Howard Russell; from the scabrously detailed law-reports in The Times to the phenomenon of Letters to its Editor; from the high culture of Matthew Arnold to the mass market of 'Railroad Bookselling'.

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Author:   Christopher Ricks (Professor, Professor, Boston University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.608kg
ISBN:  

9780192882837

ISBN 10:   019288283
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   19 May 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table 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

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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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