[(Dickens to Hardy 1837-1884: The Novel, the Past and Cultural Memory in the Nineteenth Century)] [Author: Julian Wolfreys] published on (September, 2007)

Wolfreys is one of the few British critics who writes on Victorian fiction that I can abide. He is always thoughtful and lucid, and doesn't get in the Marxist weeds that so many of his colleagues do almost by force of habit....