Article: Francis O'Gorman and Katherine Turner, eds. The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century. Reassessing the Tradition.(Book review)

Francis O'Gorman and Katherine Turner, eds. The Victorians and the Eighteenth Century. Reassessing the Tradition. Aldershot/Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004. Pp. xvi + 268. $99.95/52.50 [pounds sterling].

O'Gorman's and Turner's volume on Victorian attitudes towards the eighteenth century is a readable and informative collectionof eleven essays that spans a wide range of subjects and issues. Each focuses on major authors and their frequently ambivalent attitudes towards the eighteenth century: Dickens and his relation to Fielding (Helen Small); George Eliot and Rousseau (Simon Dentith); Ruskin and the Sublime (Dinah Birch); and Leslie Stephen's English Men of ...

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