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Review: The Arts, Literature and Society

self-justifying hero-as-murderer of the first edition of 1832 became the helpless, remorseful onlooker of subsequent editions, substantially altering the terms of any debate on free will and Providence in which the novel might be supposed to be engaging. Reed's abstraction of the discussion from the context of genre and publication, of change and topicality, in which Altick's book is based, seems to leave him helpless in the face of writers who choose to insist, as do Bulwer or Corelli, that their novels have a great design. There is an impressive range of reference here, but the context must have expanded relentlessly to overwhelm the book originally planned.