Of the five research essays collected here, two are excursions by the author chronologically outlining and discussing the history of English novel criticism from 1660 to 1800, and paying special attention to the terms 'novel', 'romance' and 'history'. Two are concerned with excursions dealt with in literary texts themselves, the first being on how continental excursions by English Renaissance gentlemen influenced their dress habits as these were discussed and criticized at home; the second being on the haunting excursion undertaken by Coleridge's Romantic Ancient Mariner, showing how and why...
Of the five research essays collected here, two are excursions by the author chronologically outlining and discussing the history of English novel cri...