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Review title: One of the best books ever about Austen and her times
Product review: This is one of those books that didn't get much review coverage when it came out but has come to be recognized since as the classic on its subject. That subject is how the English novel got thrown into creative ferment by the French Revolution and how that ferment produced the novel as we still know it. It's one of the only books about the late eighteenth century novel that isn't drearily plodding and worthy -- the prose is a joy, full of quirky flair and fizz that will remind you why you ever found fiction sexy. Rousseau, Austen, Scott, Hazlitt, Hogg, Hays, Wollstonecraft, Byron -- this is one of the mosty distinctive and persuasive books available about any of them. The section on Hazlitt's confessional Liber Amoris is the only good thing I know on the subject & puts Tom Paulin's embarrassed dismissal in his big biography to shame. This is a cult work of intellectual history, and deserves to be.
