Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: A Life of Culture (review)
understanding of the problems of the modern world and of giving them a renewed faith in the potential of social and political reform” (180). Markley’s Conversion and Reform in the British Novel in the 1790s is an intelligent, comprehensive, accessible study of reformist fiction in the late eighteenth century, and it will be of much use to scholars and students of eighteenthand early nineteenth-century literature.