G. W. M. Reynolds and His Fiction: The Man Who Outsold Dickens

ISBN-13: 9780367663636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 220 str.

Stephen Knight

Opis

George Reynolds is arguably the most prolific of all nineteenth-century English novelists, yet today remains almost unknown in the canon of English Literature. The Man Who Outsold Dickens reestablishes Reynolds as a major figure of nineteenth-century fiction and an author of European range.

O autorze

Stephen Knight (M.A., Oxford, Ph.D. Sydney, both in English Literature) taught at universities in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Leicester, and Cardiff, and is an honorary professor at Melbourne. He has written many articles and reviews, and this is his twentieth book: they include several on crime fiction, the prize-winning Robin Hood: A Mythic Biography (2003) and recently The Politics of Myth (2015); The Mysteries of the Cities (2012) has a chapter on Reynolds’ The Mysteries of London.