Charles Lever: New Evaluations (Ulster Editions & Monographs #3) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0389209643 ISBN 13: 9780389209645

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1992

Synopsis

These essays comprise the first extensive reappraisal of Charles Lever for over 50 years. Once regarded as the equal of Dickens, Trollope and Thackeray, Lever's public turned their backs on him when he changed style and genre after making his name with comic military tales. He never captured his early popularity, but his later novels in fact manifest a much more serious and crafted approach to fiction and richly deserve revival.
Lever's own turbulent and often unhappy life of social and cultural exile in Europe provides the hidden theme of many of his better novels. Continental and Irish settings and preoccupations are juxtaposed, making his contribution to the Anglo-Irish novel an unusual and challenging one.
Lever is a shrewd observer of characteróparticularly of female character; few of his better-remembered contemporaries write with more insight about women; old, young, rich, poor; loving, hating, dominating, subjected. His eye for place is acute; Scott is his model, but Lever's ability to correlate character with environment is finely developed. His political observations are shrewd and balanced.

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The first'first extensive reappraisal in fifty years,'the collection is designed to spark a revival of interest in this neglected figure.>>>> (Nineteenth-Century Literature)

The first'first extensive reappraisal in fifty years,'the collection is designed to spark a revival of interest in this neglected figure. (Nineteenth-Century Literature)

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0389209643
• ISBN 13: 9780389209645
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Tony Bareham