Robert Bage, Mount Henneth

Pam Perkins (University of Manitoba)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1781

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

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The Monthly Review

was happy to take up the challenge to reviewers with which Robert Bage opened

Mount Henneth

(2 vols, 1782), his first novel. “Books of this class are printed, published, bought, read, and deposited in the lumber garret, three months before the Reviewers say a syllable of the matter,” Bage wrote coolly in his preface (1: vii), explaining to reviewers why their disdainful attacks on novels were unnecessary. Defending his calling, the

Monthly

reviewer retorted, “Was there ever a work like the present, that even in the fulness of their spite, [reviewers] were so unjust or so foolish as to pronounce destitute of ‘wit, humour, plot, character or keeping?’ Let him point it out – if he can” (vol. 66 [Feb., 1782], 129). With this slightly convoluted compliment, the…

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Citation: Perkins, Pam. "Mount Henneth". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 October 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=3429, accessed 23 April 2024.]

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