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George Meredith (1828-1909)

A selective list of articles on Victorian novelist and poet George Meredith, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages

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Literary Criticism

Carens, Timothy L. Colonial Male Authority in George Meredith's "Lord Ormont and His Aminta." First page of article only. Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 41, No. 4, The Nineteenth Century (Autumn, 2001), pp. 805-826

Houston, Natalie M. "Affecting authenticity: Sonnets from the Portuguese and Modern Love" [Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Meredith]. Houston analyzes the emotional content and effect of the poems. Studies in the Literary Imagination, Fall 2002

Jones, Mervyn. A review of The Amazing Victorian: A Life of George Meredith (Constable). Says the reviewer, "George Meredith's contemporaries considered him the 19th century's leading literary innovator. His Celtic comic spirit combined with an Anglo-Saxon moral seriousness made Shaw his admirer but rarely his intellectual equal. Only since we've become familiar with the likes of Nabokov and Pynchon can we fully appreciate Meredith as our first great modern novelist." Reviewed in The Spectator, 12/18/1999 by Moorcock, Michael

Pritchett, V.S. A review of George Meredith and English Comedy (Random House, 1970). Says the reviewer, Pritchett has "brilliantly made Meredith a man who had something to Say to Our Times." Time Magazine, 8/3/70

Stevenson, Richard C. "Laetitia Dale and the Comic Spirit in The Egoist." First paragraph of article only. Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Mar., 1972), pp. 406-418

Zlosnik, Sue. A substantial introduction to George Meredith from the Literary Encyclopedia, 9/20/2002

The Victorian Web has good essays on George Meredith's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background

A guide to Victorian research resources from the VICTORIA discussion list for Victorian Studies

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