Meredith is a novelist whom many readers have discovered with excitement, drawn to his radical portrayal of social and personal relations, especially of gender. Neil Robert's book is the first full-length study for ten years, and is the first to examine the novels in the light of modern literary theory, especially the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, showing that Meredith is a writer who engages profoundly with the ideological discourses of his time and is a still not fully discovered precursor of the modernist novel.

NEIL ROBERTS

Introduction - The Ordeal of Richard Feveral - The Novels of the 1860s - The Adventures of Harry Richmond - Beauchamp's Career - The Egoist -The Tragic Comedians - Diana of the Crossways - The Final Phase - Notes - Bibliography - Index