Category: The Scribe’s Scribblings

Hello readers, A few weeks ago, I posted to this website an essay entitled ‘Henry James’ Solution to the Novel Problem’. Its main ambition was to consider the arguments put forth by Henry James in his essay ‘The Art of Fiction’ in a broader literary historical context, and to consider how, in the process of rebutting Walter Besant’s attempts to impose a constitution onto the process of novel writing, James […]

Hello readers, I would like to welcome you to the first post on my new blog page, ‘The Scribe’s Scribblings’. Slightly unfortunately, and mostly by coincidence, I am unable to boast that this is the most important thing to happen to the UK on this particular Saturday, and yet I like to think that I’ll be able to conjure some fanfare without being overshadowed by the historic crowning of a […]