A History of Victorian Literature

"A signal work of literary historiography: broad and sound in its fabric, detail richly textured in its detail.... The sheer quantity of this comprehensive history is matched by the genial quality of the historian who comprehends it, and whose infectiously self-renewing enthusiasm makes great learning look like great fun. It has been many decades, and several major reorientations in critical scholarship, since we last saw a literary-historical synopsis on this scale."
—Herbert F. Tucker, University of Virginia