The Development of a Critical Standard for the Novel in Fraser's Magazine, 1830-1850
Description:
This thesis is concerned with establishing the nature of the critical standard which Fraser's Magazine, a Victorian journal, used in evaluating the artistic merit of current English novels. Eminent critics such as William Thackeray, Thomas Carlyle, and William Maginn were associated with the magazine during its early years of publication: thus, the early numbers contain some of its most valuable criticism. Because the English novel was in a period of transition in the decade of the 1840's and t…
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Date:
December 1972
Creator:
Lively, Cheryl L.
Partner:
UNT Libraries