Description:
In the 1880s and 1890s, Walter Besant was one of Britain's most lionized living novelists.Today he is comparatively unknown.Bringing together literary critics and book historians, as well as social and cultural historians, this volume provides a major reassessment of Besant.
Brief description: Kevin A. Morrison is Distinguished Professor in the School of Foreign Languages at Henan University.
Review Quotes:
'Kevin A. Morrison's recent volume of essays, Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform, offers a timely and important meditation on the restoration of authors who have fallen out of favor or slipped into obscurity... The essays in this volume offer nuanced reflections on Besant's marginal status, thoughtful speculations about his fall from popularity, and compelling arguments for bringing him back into the Victorian studies.' Heidi Kaufman, Victorian Studies