The Ordeal of Richard Feverel [SEP] publisher
"The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs" (1857), from Herbert Spencer's essay "Moral Education" ("Quarterly Review", April 1858), and from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel "".
Reception.
"The Ordeal of Richard Feverel" was first published in 1859 by Chapman & Hall in three volumes. The book received generally respectful reviews, though critics were often puzzled by Meredith's rather dense style, and did not all agree in their reading of the book's message
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel
The Ordeal of Richard Feverel: A History of Father and Son (1859) is the earliest full-length novel by George Meredith; its subject is the inability of systems of education to control human passions. It is one of a select group of standard texts that have been included in all four of Everyman's Library (1935), the New American Library of World Literature (1961), Oxford World's Classics (1984), and Penguin Classics (1998). With its rigorous