Nina Baym is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Feminism and American Literary History: Essays, Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927, and American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790–1860.

Baym's chapters on plot and on character validate the importance of the kind of work she has done—and her acuity as a critic. Novels, Readers, and Reviewers is a fresh and exciting contribution to our understanding of the criticism and the sociology of narrative in the nineteenth century. It is a book of sovereign insights, richly earned.- Terence Martin (American Literature)

Nina Baym is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Feminism and American Literary History: Essays, Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927, and American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790–1860.

Baym's chapters on plot and on character validate the importance of the kind of work she has done—and her acuity as a critic. Novels, Readers, and Reviewers is a fresh and exciting contribution to our understanding of the criticism and the sociology of narrative in the nineteenth century. It is a book of sovereign insights, richly earned.- Terence Martin (American Literature)

Nina Baym is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Feminism and American Literary History: Essays, Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927, and American Women Writers and the Work of History, 1790–1860.

Baym's chapters on plot and on character validate the importance of the kind of work she has done—and her acuity as a critic. Novels, Readers, and Reviewers is a fresh and exciting contribution to our understanding of the criticism and the sociology of narrative in the nineteenth century. It is a book of sovereign insights, richly earned.- Terence Martin (American Literature)