Praise for the previous edition
Hartley is no chump; he's a wry guide and a puckish professor, embodying the young-old spirit of the discipline he has inhabited and informed for decades. ... He provides serious, solid definitions, but also cheeky marginal notes on the official history. ... In every sentence, you feel the author's personality: his earnestness, his honesty, his childlike desire to engage, to ask, to argue.
Will Brooker, Kingston University, Times Higher Education.
Hartley is no chump; he's a wry guide and a puckish professor, embodying the young-old spirit of the discipline he has inhabited and informed for decades. ... He provides serious, solid definitions, but also cheeky marginal notes on the official history. ... In every sentence, you feel the author's personality: his earnestness, his honesty, his childlike desire to engage, to ask, to argue.
Will Brooker, Kingston University, Times Higher Education.
Praise for the previous edition
Hartley is no chump; he's a wry guide and a puckish professor, embodying the young-old spirit of the discipline he has inhabited and informed for decades. ... He provides serious, solid definitions, but also cheeky marginal notes on the official history. ... In every sentence, you feel the author's personality: his earnestness, his honesty, his childlike desire to engage, to ask, to argue.
Will Brooker, Kingston University, Times Higher Education.
Hartley is no chump; he's a wry guide and a puckish professor, embodying the young-old spirit of the discipline he has inhabited and informed for decades. ... He provides serious, solid definitions, but also cheeky marginal notes on the official history. ... In every sentence, you feel the author's personality: his earnestness, his honesty, his childlike desire to engage, to ask, to argue.
Will Brooker, Kingston University, Times Higher Education.