Meg Norcia reviews CONCEPTUALIZING CRUELTY TO CHILDREN IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY...
Flegel's text is part of the Ashgate Studies in Childhood series edited by Claudia Nelson that includes Dennis Denisoff's edited collection The Nineteenth-Century Child and Consumer Culture and Mary...
View ArticleSteve Behrendt reviews FELLOW ROMANTICS: MALE AND FEMALE BRITISH WRITERS,...
More than two decades ago Stuart Curran's landmark essay, "The I Altered," appeared in Anne Mellor's 1988 essay collection, Romanticism and Feminism, which itself followed by two years Poetic Form and...
View ArticleStuart Peterfreund reviews SHELLEY'S MUSIC: FANTASY, AUTHORITY, AND THE...
This book begins with something like a thunderbolt. In a pre-emptive coup de foudre by means of which he aims to sunder his project from nearly all of what has gone before in recent Shelley studies,...
View ArticleStuart Curran reviews PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY by Stephen C. Behrendt, ed.
Stephen Behrendt's selection of Shelley for the Longman Cultural Editions takes advantage of the determination of that series of textbooks to fill out the contexts within which an author's major...
View ArticleStuart Curran reviews THE UNFAMILIAR SHELLEY edited by Alan M. Weinberg and...
Michael Bradshaw concludes the opening paragraph of the first essay in The Unfamiliar Shelley by claiming that "the isolation of the reader before" one of Shelley's fragmentary wisps of verse "is...
View ArticleGeorge Levine reviews DARWIN AND THE MEMORY OF THE HUMAN: EVOLUTION, SAVAGES,...
This is a brilliant, original, often difficult, but ultimately satisfying book. It is also very ambitious, for it sets out, by focusing on South America as an object of European travels and voyage...
View ArticleGavin Jones reviews DISTANCING ENGLISH: A CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE...
The English language "is the medium that shall well nigh express the inexpressible, "writes Walt Whitman in his preface to the 1855 Leaves of Grass. Whitman's poetic effort to find a language to...
View ArticleTony Jarrells reviews ENLIGHTENING ROMANTICISM, ROMANCING THE...
Miriam Wallace presents the essays in this collection as a response to a problem that confronts many scholars who work in the fields of eighteenth-century studies and Romanticism: the problem of...
View ArticleSarah Bleakney reviews THE VICTORIANS AND OLD AGE
This noteworthy book joins a developing body of criticism that examines Victorian conceptions of aging and how the aged are portrayed in literature and the visual arts. Specifically, Chase's work...
View ArticleDeborah Morse reviews THE JANUARY-MAY MARRIAGE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH...
Esther Godfrey's fine study of the January-May marriage focuses upon Victorian literature, although there are forays into the Romantics. Godfrey is most interested in the "provocative scenarios for...
View ArticleSarah Bilston reviews CLASS, CULTURE AND SUBURBAN ANXIETIES IN THE VICTORIAN ERA
This well-written, historically rich study is a fascinating addition to the growing body of critical work on Victorian suburbia, which includes Annette R. Federico's Idol of Suburbia: Marie Corelli...
View ArticleNikki Hessell reviews READING POPULAR CULTURE IN VICTORIAN PRINT: BELGRAVIA...
As the tension between the title and the subtitle of his book suggests, Gabriele Alberto is torn between two competing projects: a study of a very broad theme emerging out of the complex and daunting...
View ArticleFelicity James reviews ROMANTIC LITERARY FAMILIES
This is a thoughtful, measured, and persuasive book - a real contribution to our understanding of Romantic creativity. Scott Krawczyk's analysis not only taps into recent critical interest in sociable...
View ArticleLaurence Davies reviews CHARLES DICKENS, A TALE OF TWO CITIES AND THE FRENCH...
Almost every page of this collection offers a fresh idea or a piquant reading. Fruits of a conference on Dickens and the French Revolution held in 2006, the contributions are ripe but pleasingly...
View ArticleFiona Price reviews THE ART OF POLITICAL FICTION IN HAMILTON, EDGEWORTH, AND...
This book sets out to explore the political engagement and artistic skill of three Romantic period women novelists - Elizabeth Hamilton, Maria Edgeworth and Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan). Edgeworth and...
View ArticleRegenia Gagnier reviews THE PLEASURES OF BENTHAMISM: VICTORIAN LITERATURE,...
I have been referring students and colleagues to Kathleen Blake's scattered essays and lectures as a corrective to less informed treatments of Bentham and utilitarianism since I first heard Blake...
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