PAUL K. ALKON is Leo S. Bing Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is the author of five books including Defoe and Fictional Time (Georgia), Science Fiction before 1900, and Winston Churchill’s Imagination.

Alkon’s method produces shrewd observations about the texts at hand as well as about the critical ideas they generate. His account of the puzzling conclusion of Moll Flanders is the best I know. And his comparisons of timeschemes in different novels often open whole new perspectives.

PAUL K. ALKON is Leo S. Bing Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is the author of five books including Defoe and Fictional Time (Georgia), Science Fiction before 1900, and Winston Churchill’s Imagination.

Alkon’s method produces shrewd observations about the texts at hand as well as about the critical ideas they generate. His account of the puzzling conclusion of Moll Flanders is the best I know. And his comparisons of timeschemes in different novels often open whole new perspectives.

PAUL K. ALKON is Leo S. Bing Professor Emeritus of English and American Literature, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is the author of five books including Defoe and Fictional Time (Georgia), Science Fiction before 1900, and Winston Churchill’s Imagination.

Alkon’s method produces shrewd observations about the texts at hand as well as about the critical ideas they generate. His account of the puzzling conclusion of Moll Flanders is the best I know. And his comparisons of timeschemes in different novels often open whole new perspectives.