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:
'This dedication to the complex network of ideas and lived practice makes Walter Besant more than a mere love letter to a forgotten Victorian. Rather, it provides an integral contribution to the history of publishing and of literary production, and to studies of libralism and reform as they appeared at the end of the century.'
Peter Katz, Victorians Institute Journal