"Alexander Welsh has a personal voice, amused, witty, ironic, and proselytizing. He wears learning lightly and ranged widely over genres and disciplines, pleasing the cultural generalist as well as the nostalgic individualist."-- "Times Literary Supplement."" Welsh's work on narrative is consistently. among the most theoretically original, daringly interdisciplinary, and substantively important that we have."-- "Modern Philology.""A book this intelligent with this large a thesis and range of interests. naturally leaves one wishing for more.

"-- "Nineteenth-Century Literature".