The gentleman's excuse-me

the male apologist and the experience of realism in James Herbert's The magic cottage

Andrew R. Smith

pp. 255-270

in: Clive Bloom (ed), Twentieth-century suspense, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1990

Abstract

The history of the work of James Herbert is a travelogue of popular success. His work conceptualises many of the themes and concerns about romance and power, which have themselves been popularised through cultural dissemination and cultural articulation.