Volume 27, Number 18 · November 20, 1980
You Better Believe It
By Denis Donoghue
The Middle Ground
by Margaret Drabble
Knopf, 277 pp., $10.95
Setting the World on Fire
by Angus Wilson
Viking, 296 pp., $12.95
Since the early eighteenth century, the dominant tradition in English fiction has been the realistic novel. I should say a word or two about what I take realism to mean, especially now that its assumptions have begun to wobble, as in the two new novels under review.
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