Randall Craig is Associate Professor of English at State University of New York at Albany. He is the author of The Tragicomic Novel: Studies in a Fictional Mode from Meredith to Joyce.
“I like the way Craig considers several strands of Victorian thinking about language, from philosophy and philology to law and literature. He does a fine job of establishing the various nuances, contradictions, and parallels present in the ways Victorian writers and thinkers conceptualized language and social contracts. This is fascinating material, and particularly well handled in those early chapters where he discusses the various disciplines and their approaches to language. Craig’s scholarship is also admirable; he has a clear and comprehensive knowledge of the relevant works.” ― Ruth Ann Smalley, College of Saint Rose
“What is likeable, interesting, and above all significant about Craig’s book is his discovery of a fresh language-centered and law-centered framework for a century of novel-writing. The discovery lights up even those classic novels that might seem to have exhausted commentary.” ―Robert L. Caserio, author of The Novel in England, 1900–1950: History and Theory