About J. Russell Perkin J. Russell Perkin is professor of English, Saint Mary's University, and the author of A Reception-History of George Eliot's Fiction. Books by J. Russell Perkin Politics and the British Novel in the 1970s by (author) J. Russell Perkin David Lodge and the Tradition of the Modern Novel by (author) J. Russell Perkin Theology and the Victorian Novel by (author) J. Russell Perkin