Readable People of George Meredith

Meredith's reputation as an "e;unreadable"e; novelist prompted Judith Wilt to examine the relationship between author and reader in Meredith's fiction-a relationship that was combative and teacherly and, she contends, a central aspect of his art. Meredith was concerned with "e;readable people,"e; by whom he meant his readers (as he imagined them and as they were), his characters (as he created the...