Centre of Things

`... an extraordinarily busy, exfoliating book, bursting its banks with plot summaries and potted historical explanations ... very readable indeed.' - Valentine Cunningham, New Statesman and Society`This is an excellent survey of the British political novel.' - Contemporary Review`Students of politics as well as literature will find it very stimulating' - The Scotsman Weekend

• Preface The Conversation of People who Counted The Literature of Crisis The Triumph of Disraeli Landscape with Candidates The Golden Age: the Mid-Victorian Political Novel Revolutionaries and Elitists, 1886-1914 In Time of Strife, 1914-26 Class? Nation? Commonwealth? The Fall and Rise of British Political Fiction Index