Novel Characters offers a fascinating and in-depth history of the novelistic character from the “birth of the novel” in Don Quixote , through the great canonical works of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, to the most influenti...

Where other works of literary criticism are absorbed with the question--How to read a book?-- Imagining Virginia Woolf asks a slightly different but more intriguing one: how does one read an author? Maria DiBattista answers this by undertaking a...