Meredith is a novelist whom many readers have discovered with
excitement, drawn to his radical portrayal of social and personal
relations, especially of gender. Neil Robert's book is the first
full-length study for ten years, and is the first to examine the novels
in the light of modern literary theory, especially the work of Mikhail
Bakhtin, showing that Meredith is a writer who engages profoundly with
the ideological discourses of his time and is a still not fully
discovered precursor of the modernist novel.