Robert Bage, James Wallace

Pam Perkins (University of Manitoba)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

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First circulation or publication 1788

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England (Country of Origin)

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Early in Robert Bage’s fourth novel,

James Wallace

(3 vols, 1788) a good-natured but unsophisticated country squire complains about his sister’s fondness for novels, a taste he can’t comprehend. As he exclaims impatiently, “[T]hey be all stories from one end to t’other. As how Mr. Thingumbob falls in love wi’ Miss What’s her name. How they be crossed in love! How Mr. Such a one runs away with her. Then comes Thingumbob slap, and kills him. Then Father and Mother comes to; so they be married, and there’s an end on’t” (1: 202-203). With a frothy plot featuring illicit passion, a near-fatal duel, and the apparently star-crossed love of its wandering foundling hero,

James Wallace

might sound, in outline, like precisely the sort of novel disdained by the plain-spoken Squire…

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Citation: Perkins, Pam. "James Wallace". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 25 October 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4362, accessed 25 November 2024.]

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