Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1926456 in Books
• Published on: 1990-10-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.42" h x 6.03" w x 9.03" l, 2.19 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 700 pages

From Library Journal
The canon of Victorian fiction represents only a minuscule fraction of the thousands of titles available to read. Here, in language often reflecting Victorian modes of expression, Sutherland makes this fraction more accessible through a dictionary arrangement of 1606 author and title entries. Authors and titles naturally predominate, but publishers, periodicals, illustrators, and sub-genres are treated as well. Compulsively browsable, this companion offers new discoveries on each page, even to those immersed in the field. Its solo authorship accounts for its blemishes as well as its charms. Some entries for items well known to this reviewer have small inaccuracies, possibly due to reliance on conventional biographical sources (for instance, the Dictionary of National Biography ). Yet the Stanford Companion' s range and convenience as a starting point for work on hundreds of novelists commend this work for academic and larger public libraries.
- Barbara J. Dunlap, City Coll., CUNY
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