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| Review of Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain
A Review of Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain
by H. L. Malchow
Review Author: Julia P. Kielstra
Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain is worth reading not for any light it sheds on the gothic, nor for a reduction of the shadows in the "borderlands between literature and hist... More |
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| Review of Jane Austen in Hollywood
A Review of Jane Austen in Hollywood by Linda Troost
Review Author: Elizabeth Archer
The introduction's title, "Watching Ourselves Watching," sets the theme that ties the essays together: these movies and miniseries reveal as much about ourselves as they do about Austen. More |
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| Review of Victorian Travelers and the Opening of China, 1842-1907
A Review of Victorian Travelers and the Opening of China, 1842-1907 by Susan Schoenbauer Thurin
Review Author: Julia Kielstra
Thurin demonstrates the contradictory nature of travelogues and of travelers in a compelling account of British Victorian interest in China. More |
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| Review of Bacchus in Romantic England
A Review of Bacchus in Romantic England: Drink and Writers by Anya Taylor
Review Author: Megan O'Neill
Taylor uses twentieth-century medical research into alcoholism to comment primarily on the changing social attitudes and beliefs about alcohol and drunkards. More |
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| Review of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel
A Review of Florence Nightingale: Avenging Angel by Hugh Small
Review Author: Ellen Jordan
This book by Hugh Small casts doubt on another part of the Florence Nightingale myth, that her deeds during the Crimean war were in fact good. More |
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| Review of Keats's Odes and Contemporary Criticism
A Review of Keats's Odes and Contemporary Criticism by James O'Rourke
Review Author: Bridget Keegan
O'Rourke marshals the works of the most important names in two centuries of Keats studies to demonstrate how Keats's poetry reveals the inadequacy of criticism to contain its meaning. More |
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| Review of Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain
A Review of Women of the Press in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Barbara Onslow
Review Author: Carolyn Oulton
The reach of this book is ambitious and yet it contrives to balance exhaustive research with the approachable tone of a magazine column. More |
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| Review of John Ruskin
A Review of John Ruskin (Sutton Pocket Biography) by Francis O'Gorman
Review Author: Elizabeth Archer
Good things often come in small packages, and the Sutton Pocket Biographies volume on John Ruskin is a case in point. More |
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| Review of Jane Austen: A Life
A Review of Jane Austen: A Life by David Nokes
Review Author: Catherine Judd
David Nokes's recent Austen biography, Jane Austen: A Life, in more senses than one offers a "novel" approach to Austen's life. More |
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| Review of The Poetry of Relationship
A Review of The Poetry of Relationship: The Wordsworths and Coleridge, 1797-1800 by Richard Matlak
Review Author: Robert Churchill
Matlak's book is, in the end, much too detailed and richly provocative to do it justice in so short a review. Utilizing biographical data and inspired close readings of the authors' texts, Matlak is m... More |
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| Review of Victorian Urban Settings
A Review of Victorian Urban Settings: Essays on the Nineteenth-Century City and its Contexts by Debra N. Mancoff (Ed.)
Review Author: Jon Hegglund
Victorian Urban Settings, while not breaking much new theoretical ground on the study of nineteenth-century urban space, does offer individual essays that deepen the understanding of the Victor... More |
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| Review of Angels and Absences
A Review of Angels and Absences: Child Deaths in the Nineteenth Century by Laurence Lerner
Review Author: Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Laurence Lerner's fascinating book Angels and Absences offers numerous instances of individual responses to the death of children in fiction and poetry throughout the nineteenth century. More |
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| Review of Hopkins Re-Constructed
A Review of Hopkins Re-Constructed: Life, Poetry, and the Tradition by Justus George Lawler
Review Author: Elisabeth Brown
In Hopkins Re-Constructed: Life, Poetry, and the Tradition, Justus George Lawler reads Hopkins's poetry within the context of British poetry and Jesuit tradition. More |
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| Review of Keats's Paradise Lost
A Review of Keats's Paradise Lost by Beth Lau
Review Author: Bridget Keegan
Lau's sensitive critical approach reads Keats's reading of Paradise Lost as a means to achieve a heightened appreciation of the consistency of the poet's vision. More |
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| Review of Victorian Painting
A Review of Victorian Painting by Lionel Lambourne
Review Author: David Stewart
Victorian Painting contains the finest collection of color reproductions of Victorian works that exists today. More |
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| Review of The Gothic Body
A Review of The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siecle by Kelly Hurley
Review Author: Julia P. Kielstra
By focusing on scientific and pseudo-scientific texts and their relation to literary ones, Hurley diffuses the disgusting and nauseating aspects of some Gothic texts and demonstrates the importance of... More |
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| Review of Revealing the Holy Land
A Review of Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of Palestine by Kathleen Stewart Howe
Review Author: Paul Hansom
Howe's book is of great importance to those scholars interested in this much neglected sphere of British influence, mainly because it provides such a rich and fascinating record. More |
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| Review of Dickens and Imagination
A Review of Dickens and Imagination by Robert Higbie
Review Author: Francis Steen
In Dickens and Imagination, Robert Higbie takes on the important and ambitious project of situating literature within a coherent theory of the imagination. More |
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| Review of The Victorian Pulpit
A Review of The Victorian Pulpit: Spoken and Written Sermons in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Robert H. Ellison
Review Author: Carolyn Oulton
Robert Ellison's The Victorian Pulpit aims to chart the nineteenth-century debate over the nature and purpose of the sermon. More |
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| Review of Romantic Genius and The Challenge of Coleridge
A Review of The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy by David P. Haney
Review Author: Margaret Russett
These two recent contributions to Romantic studies have little in common but their dialectical intelligence, deep learning, and respect for their subjects. More |
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| Review of Romantic Genius and The Challenge of Coleridge
A Review of Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role by Andrew Elfenbein
Review Author: Margaret Russett
These two recent contributions to Romantic studies have little in common but their dialectical intelligence, deep learning, and respect for their subjects. More |
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| Review of Secret Selves
A Review of Secret Selves: Confession and Same-Sex Desire in Victorian Autobiography by Oliver S. Buckton
Review Author: Julia P. Kielstra
Buckton demonstrates the ability to integrate theory, historical criticism, and intelligent readings of texts. More |
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| Review of The Reading Lesson
A Review of The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass Literacy in Nineteenth- Century British Fiction by Patrick Brantlinger
Review Author: Catherine Judd
The Reading Lesson represents the culmination of Brantlinger's prolonged meditation on the complexities and anxieties involved in the emergence of mass literacy in nineteenth-century England. More |
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| Review of The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel
A Review of The Child, the State, and the Victorian Novel by Laura C. Berry
Review Author: Dana Rossman Regaignon
The child victim, whose patent need for the state's protective intervention demonstrates that s/he is an autonomous being rather than a paternal possession (as the law had previously assumed), thus pr... More |
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| Review of Our Lady of Victorian Feminism
A Review of Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot by Kimberly VanEsveld Adams
Review Author: Miriam Burstein
Adams argues that Jameson, Fuller, and Eliot present the Madonna as a symbol of female empowerment. More |
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| Review of Architecture in the Family Way
A Review of Architecture in the Family Way: Doctors, Houses, and Women, 1870-1900 by Annemarie Adams
Review Author: Kristina Deffenbacher
Annemarie Adams' book presents an argument focusing upon architecture and literature to elucidate connections between Victorian-era women and doctors. More |
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| Review of Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins
A Review of Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins
by Carolyn Dever
Review Author: David Toise
Carolyn Devers' Death and the Motherimplicitly charts a late-nineteenth-century shift in relation to the dead or absent mother that may presage the rise of psychoanalysis. More |
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| Review of The World of Hannah More
A Review of The World of Hannah More by Patricia Demers
Review Author: Bridget Keegan
Patricia Demers suggests that Hannah More should be read with a more sophisticated view of her views on women, writing, and education. More |
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| Review of Policing Gender, Class and Family: Britain, 1850-1940
A Review of Policing Gender, Class and Family: Britain, 1850-1940
by Linda Mahood
Review Author: Julia P. Kielstra
Mahood admirably unites different aspects -- class, gender, sexuality, and race -- of the child-saving movement. More |
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| Review of Labrador Odyssey: The Journal and Photographs of Eliot Curwen on the second Voyage of Wilfred Grenfell, 1893
A Review of Labrador Odyssey: The Journal and Photographs of Eliot Curwen on the second Voyage of Wilfred Grenfell, 1893
by Ronald Rompkey (Ed.)
Review Author: Paul Hansom
Ronald Rompkey's Labrador Odyssey is a fascinating personal and photographic account of a brief summer visit to Britain's first colony, the harsh and unforgiving territory north of Newfoundland... More |
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| Review of Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism
A Review of Glorious Battle: The Cultural Politics of Victorian Anglo-Catholicism
by John Shelton Reed
Review Author: Robert Ellison
Throughout the nineteenth century, Anglo-Catholicism was characterized by conflict; Reed argues, in fact, that it "thrived on opposition." More |
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| Review of A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
A Review of A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society
by Mary Poovey
Review Author: Kathleen C. Lonsdale
A History of the Modern Fact addresses two related and fascinating questions: how and why did "the fact"-- a discrete bit of knowledge presented in statistical, or at least numerical, form -- b... More |
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| Review of After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture
A Review of After the Lovedeath: Sexual Violence and the Making of Culture
by Lawrence Kramer
Review Author: Kathleen Lonsdale
After the Lovedeath could be quite useful to anyone interested studying music, theory, and literature in combination. More |
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| Review of State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England
A Review of State, Society and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England
by Alan Kidd
Review Author: Bridget Keegan
Kidd's monograph is an astute and readable work. More |
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| Review of The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy
A Review of The Hidden Wordsworth: Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy
by Kenneth Johnston
Review Author: Marcy L. Tanter
Johnston's book is as much a good read as it is a necessary addition to Wordsworth scholarship. More |
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| Review of Henry Goulburn 1784-1856: A Political Biography
A Review of Henry Goulburn 1784-1856: A Political Biography by Brian Jenkins
Review Author: Michael Weaver
Jenkins's study shows that, whatever boots Goulburn wore, he marched strongly in step with Britain's greatest prime minister. More |
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| Review of Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature 1650-1865
A Review of Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature 1650-1865
by Susan Greenfield (Ed.)
Review Author: Harly Ramsey
The wide range of topics presented in this volume underscores the malleability of maternity. More |
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| Review of Wordsworth and the Victorians
A Review of Wordsworth and the Victorians
by Stephen Gill
Review Author: Marcy Tanter
Considering how often Wordsworth has been accused of "selling out" during his middle and later years, it is refreshing to find a study that is focused on the last 25 years of his life and how he impac... More |
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| Review of Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction
A Review of Promising Language: Betrothal in Victorian Law and Fiction by Randall Craig
Review Author: Susie Steinbach
Craig persuasively argues for the centrality of marriage promises to nineteenth-century British culture. More |
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| Review of The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon
A Review of The Literary Lives of Mary Elizabeth Braddon: A Study of Her Life and Works by Jennifer Carnell
Review Author: Mark Knight
The originality of Carnell's book lies in its biographical detail. More |
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