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Victor J Lams
Samuel Richardson’s highly acclaimed Clarissa, commonly read as a courtship novel, is in fact a story about the transaction between Robert Lovelace, a pathological narcissist, and Clarissa Harlowe, his victim…
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Victor J. Lams
Challenging the view that Samuel Richardson’s eighteenth-century epistolary novel Clarissa is a shapeless sequence of letters, this book argues that the novel has an action structure consisting of five act-like…
Focusing upon the arguments Newman uses to define Catholicism against the hostility of English protestants, this book is a reader’s guide to the books Newman published soon after his own…
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Completing the survey begun in Lams’ Cornish Trilogy volume, Aspects of Robertson Davies’ Novels discusses the Salterton and Deptford trilogies along with Davies’ last two novels, Murther & Walking Spirits…
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Begins with a survey of R F Delderfield’s knowledge of Napoleonic history as revealed in his three Napoleonic-era novels. In this book, two commentaries follow: the first on English attitudes…
Portrays the social history of Adam Swann and his family, energetic people of differing talents and tempers involved in a kaleidoscopic range of social engagements. This book dramatizes a half-century…
Building upon the evidence that John Henry Newman’s Parochial Sermons is a georgic (Lams, 2004), the current book defines and discusses the visionary georgic, a subset of the genre whose…
Far from being a random collection, the six volumes of Anglican sermons that John Henry Newman published between 1834 and 1842 were selected and thematically arranged to create a unified…
Robertson Davies’s Cornish Trilogy: A Reader’s Guide is the first book-length study of Davies’s best work: The Rebel Angels, What’s Bred in the Bone, and The Lyre of Orpheus. In…
