"Rawson may well be the most impressive critic now working in this period . . . his method is as far from mechanical analysis as can be imagined." - British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies ôHistorically rigorous yet not a historicist, attuned to textual nuances yet not a theorist or deconstructionist, Rawson strikes me as in many ways exemplary, immensely readable and informative, judicious and humane . . . a teacher in the best sense.ö û Criticism
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