The ordeal of Richard Feverel
Subtitle: a history of father and son
By: George Meredith ; edited with an introduction and notes by Edward Mendelson.
Contributors: Mendelson, Edward.
Series: Penguin classics
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
Subjects: Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; England -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The war between the sexes and the generations, myths of Eden and Utopia, and the psychology of sexual jealousy and repression are explored by Meredith in this novel. The Ordeal of Richard Feverel (1859) concerns Sir Austin Feverel's misconceived attempts to educate his son Richard according to a system of his own devising. Embodied in Sir Austin's anonymously published The Pilgrim's Scrip are his theories of sexual restraint which find little favour with Richard."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxix-xxx).