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Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On the Novel and Journalism

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Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On the Novel and Journalism
Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On the Novel and Journalism

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Selected Writings of James Fitzjames Stephen: On the Novel and Journalism

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James Fitzjames Stephen (1829-1894) is still highly valued as a judge, as the historian of the criminal law of England, and as the author of
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
, a forthright disagreement with John Stuart Mill. Stephen's weekly journalism established him as a vigorous cross-examiner in the controversies—cultural, social, religious, political, moral, and philosophical—of his time (and duly, of our time).
Collected here now are his essays on the novel and journalism, the co-operation and collusion of these two, their responsibilities and irresponsibilities. Written between 1855 and 1867, while Stephen prosecuted twin careers as barrister and journalist, these reviews bring to bear his formidable powers of mind and of phrasing, scrutinizing many deep and disconcerting novelists—Dickens and Thackeray, Harriet Beecher Stowe and E. C. Gaskell, Flaubert and Balzac. His work also weighs journalism in the scales: from Addison's
The Spectator
to the Crimean war correspondence of William Howard Russell; from the scabrously detailed law-reports in
The Times
to the phenomenon of Letters to its Editor; from the high culture of Matthew Arnold to the mass market of 'Railroad Bookselling'.

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