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The Rage For Analysis

Freudianism and the Literary Mind (Second Edition). By Frederick J. Hoffman. (O.U.P., 40s.) MR. HOFFMAN, Professor of English at Wisconsin, works steadily on through one modern......

Freudian Contrasts

The Angel-Makers: A Study in the Psychological Origins of Historical Change, 1750-1850. By Gordon Rattray Taylor. (Heinemann, 42s.) MR. RATTRAY TAYLOR is a wholehearted believer......

Books

Fit Audience Br FRANK KERMODE HAT meaning, if any, can one attach to the expression 'a key book of the .present decade'? It is used as a blurb in a new reprint of Mr. J. D.......

The Reluctant Dean

Dean Church. By B. A. Smith. (O.U.P., 30 ing Richard William Church to accept the dean s ' Church had been Rector of Whatley, a tiny Pa rP in Somerset, and he did not take at......