Abstract
Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684–1750. By William B. Warner (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1998) xvi + 325 pp. $48.00, £37.50 cloth, $22.50, £16.95 paper.
Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City. By Peter Bailey (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998) x + 258 pp.