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Fairer, David. 1982. Review of Michael Seidel, Satiric Inheritance: Rabelais to Sterne, in Modern Language Review, 77.4, pp. 921–22, doi:10.2307/3726512

Fairer, David. 1987. Review of John Sitter, Literary Loneliness in Mid-Eighteenth-Century England, in Modern Language Review, 82.1, pp. 170–72, doi:10.2307/3729930

Fairer, David. 1995. Review of Carolyn D. Williams, Pope, Homer, and Manliness: Some Aspects of Eighteenth-Century Classical Learning, in Non-Standard Englishes and the New Media, ed. by Andrew Gurr (= Yearbook of English Studies, 25.1), pp. 292–93, doi:10.2307/3508879