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Charles Lever - New Evaluations (Hardcover)
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Charles Lever - New Evaluations (Hardcover)
Series: Ulster Editions & Monographs, 3
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These essays comprise the first extensive re-appraisal of Charles
Lever for over fifty years. Once regarded as the equal of Dickens,
Thackeray and Trollope, Lever's public turned their backs upon him
when he changed style and genre after making his name with comic
military tales. He never recaptured his early popularity, but his
later novels in fact manifest a much more serious and crafted
approach to fiction, and richly deserve revival. Lever's own
turbulent and often unhappy life of social and cultural exile in
Europe provides the hidden theme of many of his better novels.
Continental and Irish settings and preoccupations are juxtaposed,
making his contribution to the Anglo-Irish novel per se an unusual
and challenging one. Lever is a shrewd observer of character -
particularly of female character; few of his better-remembered
contemporaries write with more insight about women; old, young,
rich, poor; loving, hating, dominating, subjected. His eye for
place is acute; Scott is his model, but Lever's ability to
correlate character with environment is finely developed. His
political observations, always well-integrated into the fabric of
his plot, are shrewd and balanced. The current neglect of this
accomplished and cosmopolitan Irishman is entirely unwarranted.
Though he wrote too much, too hastily, and under pressures
sometimes too much dominated by the intransigent necessities of
serial publication, the contri butors to this volume seek to show
that Lever deserves a re-appraisal, and a revival of attention to
his extensive and often original output. Thus, hopefully, the
revival of interest in Charles Lever, commencing with this volume,
should attract readers of the novel well beyond the specialist
range of Anglo-Irish scholars.
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