An essential collection of literary criticism from Francis Mulhern, author of The Moment of 'Scrutiny' and Culture/Metaculture Into the Mel?e collects Francis Mulhern's insightful critical writing, much of it in the hybrid literary form that Bagehot described as 'the review-like essay and the essay-like review'. It opens with questions of nationality, from F. R. Leavis's efforts to assert a normatively English literary subject and Ferdinand Mount's...