About the Author

Mary Ann O’Farrell is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University.

Reviews

"As brightly as the blush that is its subject, this new study of the English novel blazons an extraordinary critical talent: even after we have absorbed her powerful sense that the skin is deeper, more densely lined with social text than we ever imagined, her prismatic sensibility - an exorbitant exercise of what Jane Austin, who would know, called 'the right of a lively mind' - must remain one of a kind." - D. A. Miller