Autumn 2020 Books Received

Abraham, Adam. Plagiarizing the Victorian Novel: Imitation, Parody, Aftertext. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 118. Gen. ed. Gillian Beer. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. x + 294. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-49307-9.

Albrecht, Thomas. The Ethical Vision of George Eliot. Among the Victorians and the Modernists 21. Series ed. Dennis Denisoff. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 220. $155.00. ISBN 978-0-367-36074-0.

Allan, Janice M., and Christopher Pittard, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. 20 + 268. $64.99 cloth. ISBN 978-1-107-15585-5. $19.99 paper. ISBN 978-1-316-60959-0.

Archambeau, Robert. Poetry and Uselessness: From Coleridge to Ashbery. Among the Victorians and the Modernists 20. Series ed. Dennis Denisoff. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 254. $140.00. ISBN 978-0-367-20736-6.

Atkinson, Juliette. French Novels and the Victorians. British Academy Monographs. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2017. Pp. x + 430. $100.00. ISBN 978-0-19-726609-0.

Auerbach, Jeffrey A. Imperial Boredom: Monotony and the British Empire. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xvi + 304. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-19-882737-5.

Austen, Jane. The Daily Jane Austen: A Year of Quotes. Ed. with foreword by Devoney Looser. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2019 (paper only). Pp. xvi + 200. $14.00 paper. ISBN 978-0-226-65544-4.

Balkin, Sarah. Spectral Characters: Genre and Materiality on the Modern Stage. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2019. Pp viii + 196. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-472-13148-8.

Barchas, Janine. The Lost Books of Jane Austen. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 286. $35.00. ISBN 978-1-4214-3159-8.

Battigelli, Anna, ed. Art and Artifact in Austen. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press (distributed by Univ. of Virginia Press), 2019. Pp. 288. $75.00. ISBN 978-1-64453-174-7.

Bergren, Katherine. The Global Wordsworth: Romanticism Out of Place. Transits: Literature, Thought, and Culture, 1650–1850. Series eds. Greg Clingham, Kathryn Parker, and Miriam Wallace. Lewisburg PA: Bucknell Univ. Press (distributed by Rutgers Univ. Press), 2019. Pp. xii + 214. $99.95 cloth. ISBN 978-1-6844-8013-5. $34.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-68448-012-8.

Bevis, Matthew. Wordsworth’s Fun. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 310. $82.50 cloth. ISBN 978-0-226-65205-4. $27.50 paper. ISBN 978-0-226-65219-1.

Borham-Puyal, Miriam. Contemporary Rewritings of Liminal Women: Echoes of the Past. Among the Victorians and the Modernists 22. Series ed. Dennis Denisoff. London and New York: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 150. $155.00. ISBN 978-0-3672-7778-9.

Bourrier, Karen. Victorian Bestseller: The Life of Dinah Craik. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2019. Pp xviii + 328. $85.00. ISBN 978-0-472-13138-9.

Brooke-Smith, James. Gilded Youth: Privilege, Rebellion, and the British Public School. London: Reaktion Books, 2019. Pp. 296. £18.00. ISBN 978-1-78914-066-8.

Burman, Barbara, and Ariane Fennetaux. The Pocket: A Hidden History of Women’s Lives, 1660–1900. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. 264. £19.99. ISBN 978-0-300-23907-2.

Carey, Hilary M. Empire of Hell: Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788–1875. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 372. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-04308-4.

Collins, William Wilkie. The Dead Alive. Ed. Anna E. Clark. Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Gen. eds. Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, Isobel Grundy, Don LePan, Roy Liuzza, Jerome J. McGann, Anne Lake Prescott, Barry V. Qualls, Jason Rudy, and Claire Waters. Peterborough ON: Broadview, 2019 (paper only). Pp. 120. $14.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-55481-433-6.

Coombs, David Sweeney. Reading with the Senses in Victorian Literature and Science. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Series ed. Herbert F. Tucker. Charlottesville and London: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 226. $39.50. ISBN 978-0-8139-4342-8.

Corelli, Marie. A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel. Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts. Series ed. Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press (distributed in the USA by Oxford Univ. Press), 2019. Pp. liv +236. $125.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-4191-9.

Crawford, Iain. Contested Liberalisms: Martineau, Dickens and the Victorian Press. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Series ed. Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. 336. $125.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-5313-4.

Crossley, Alice. Male Adolescence in Mid-Victorian Fiction: George Meredith, W. M. Thackeray, and Anthony Trollope. Nineteenth Century Series. Series ed. Joanne Shattock. London and New York: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xiv + 248. $149.95. ISBN 978-1-4724-4557-5.

Cutmore, Jonathan, ed. John Murray’s “Quarterly Review”: Letters, 1807–1843. Liverpool English Texts and Studies 74. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xviii + 398. £100.00. ISBN 978-1-78694-190-9.

Davidson, Hilary. Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. 336. $40.00. ISBN 978-0-300-21872-5.

Denisoff, Dennis, and Talia Schaffer, eds. The Routledge Companion to Victorian Literature. Routledge Companions to Literature. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 540. $220.00. ISBN 978-113-8579-866.

Dickens, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. Ed. Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. Norton Critical Editions. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2020 (paper only). Pp. xliv + 404. $13.75 paper. ISBN 978-0-393-26423-4.

Dorfman, Eran. Double Trouble: The Doppelgänger from Romanticism to Postmodernism. Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 214. $155.00. ISBN 978-0-367-44144-9.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Daily Sherlock Holmes: A Year of Quotes from the Case-book of the World’s Greatest Detective. Eds. Levi Stahl and Stacey Shintani. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2019 (paper only). Pp. 208. $14.00 paper. ISBN 978-0-226-65964-0.

Eliot, George, trans. Spinoza’s Ethics. Ed. Clare Carlisle. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press, 2020. Pp xii + 372. $99.95 cloth. ISBN 978-0-691-19323-6. $26.95 paper. ISBN 978-0-691-19324-3.

Fennell, Jack. Rough Beasts: The Monstrous in Irish Fiction, 1800– 2000. Liverpool English Texts and Studies 82. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. vi + 290. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-789-62034-4.

Fernandez, Jean. Geography and the Literary Imagination in Victorian Fiction of Empire: The Poetics of Imperial Space. Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 284. $155.00. ISBN 978-0-3674-0950-0.

Field, Hannah. Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader. Minneapolis and London: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 2019. Pp. 254. $120.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-5179-0176-9. $30.00 paper. ISBN 978-1-5179-0177-6.

Fletcher, LuAnn McCracken. Literary Tourism and the British Isles: History, Imagination, and the Politics of Place. Lanham MD and Plymouth UK: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. Pp xx + 322. $115.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-4985-8123-3. $109.00 paper. ISBN 978-1-4985-8124-0.

Friedman, Dustin. Before Queer Theory: Victorian Aestheticism and the Self. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2019 (paper only). Pp. xiv + 234. $34.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-4214-3148-2.

Gilbert, Pamela K. Victorian Skin: Surface, Self, History. Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 436. $49.95. ISBN 978-1-5017-3159-4.

Gore, Clare Walker. Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Series ed. Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. 272. $125.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-5501-5.

Groom, Nick. The Vampire: A New History. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. 320. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-300-23223-3.

Haggarty, Sarah, ed. William Blake in Context. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xxii + 378. $89.99. ISBN 978-1-107-14491-0.

Hardie, Melissa. Brontë Territories: Cornwall and the Unexplored Maternal Legacy, 1760–1860. Brighton: Edward Everett Root, 2019. Pp. xxii + 278. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-911454-46-5.

Hardy, Thomas. Desperate Remedies. Ed. Richard Nemesvari. Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy. Series ed. Richard Nemesvari. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. lxxxiii + 568. $125.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-107-03692-5.

Hardy, Thomas. The Woodlanders. Ed. Alan Manford. Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy. Series ed. Richard Nemesvari. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. lxxxiv + 685. $ 115.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-107-04650-4.

Hardy, Thomas. Under the Greenwood Tree. Ed. Simon Gatrell. Cambridge Edition of the Novels and Stories of Thomas Hardy. Series ed. Richard Nemesvari. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. cxlvi + 414. $125.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-107-08902-0.

Hatter, Janine, and Nickianne Moody, eds. Fashion and Material Culture in Victorian Fiction and Periodicals. New Paths in Victorian Literature and Culture Series 1. Brighton: Edward Everett Root, 2019. Pp. xxxviii + 214. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-912224-69-2.

Heiniger, Abigail. Jane Eyre’s Fairytale Legacy at Home and Abroad: Constructions and Deconstructions of National Identity. New York and London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. x + 178. $165.00. ISBN 978-1-4724-6861-1.

Henderson, Andrea K. Algebraic Art: Mathematical Formalism and Victorian Culture. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 228. $64.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-19-880998-2.

Herbert, Christopher. Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula. Victorian Literature and Culture Series. Series ed. Herbert F. Tucker. Charlottesville and London: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 280. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8139-4340-4.

Hofer-Robinson, Joanna, and Beth Palmer, eds. Sensation Drama, 1860–1880: An Anthology. Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts. Series ed. Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press (distributed in the USA by Oxford Univ. Press), 2019. Pp. xxxvi + 390. $125.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-3953-4.

Hoydis, Julia. Risk and the English Novel: From Defoe to McEwan. Anglia Book Series. Series eds. Lucia Kornexl, Ursula Lenker, Martin Middeke, Gabriele Rippl, Daniel Stein, and Hubert Zapf. Berlin: De Gruyter Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 672. $137.99. ISBN 978-3-11-061486-2.

Hughes, Linda K. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Poetry. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xx + 316. $79.99 cloth. ISBN 978-1-107-18247-9. $24.99 paper. ISBN 978-1-316-63357-1.

Jackson, Lee. Palaces of Pleasure: From Music Halls to the Seaside to Football, How the Victorians Invented Mass Entertainment. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 308. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-300-22463-4.

James, Felicity, and Julian North, eds. Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian Auto/Biography. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. x + 148. $145.00. ISBN 978-1-138-30674-5.

Jewusiak, Jacob. Aging, Duration, and the English Novel: Growing Old from Dickens to Woolf. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 120. Gen. ed. Gillian Beer. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. xii + 210. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-49917-0.

Jones, D. Michael. The Byronic Hero and the Rhetoric of Masculinity in the 19th Century British Novel. Jefferson NC: McFarland and Company, 2017 (paper only). Pp. viii + 184. $39.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-4766-6228-2.

Joseph, Abigail. Exquisite Materials: Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style. Newark: Univ. of Delaware Press (distributed by Univ. of Virginia Press), 2019. Pp. xvi + 314. $79.50. ISBN 978-1-64453-168-6.

Ki, Magdalen. Jane Austen and Altruism. Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature 58. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. 269. $140.00. ISBN 978-0-367-34299-9.

King, Amy M., The Divine in the Commonplace: Reverent Natural History and the Novel in Britain. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 304. $99.99 cloth. ISBN 978-1-108-49295-9.

King, Stephen. Writing the Lives of the English Poor, 1750s–1830s. States, People, and the History of Social Change 1. Series eds. Rosalind Crone and Heather Shore. Montreal, Kingston ON, London, and Chicago: McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xviii + 470. $120.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-7735-5648-5. $34.95 paper. ISBN 978-0-7735-5649-2.

Kornbluh, Anna. The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 220. $82.50 cloth. ISBN 978-0-226-65320-4. $27.50 paper. ISBN 978-0-226-65334-1.

Lee, Vernon. Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856–1935: Volume 1, 1865–1884. Ed. Amanda Gagel. Pickering Masters. New York and London: Routledge, 2017. Pp. 658. $225.00. ISBN 978-1848-93495-5.

Levy, Michelle. Literary Manuscript Culture in Romantic Britain. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism. Series eds. Ian Duncan and Penny Fielding. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. 310. $125.00. ISBN 978-1474-45706-4.

Lewis, Alexandra, ed. The Brontës and the Idea of the Human: Science, Ethics, and the Victorian Imagination. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 115. Gen. ed. Gillian Beer. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xiv + 304. $105.00. ISBN 978-1-107-15481-0.

Lipska, Aneta. The Travel Writings of Marguerite Blessington: The Most Gorgeous Lady on the Tour. Anthem Studies in Travel. Series ed. Charles Forsdick. London and New York: Anthem Press, 2017. Pp. xxii + 158. $115.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-78308-678-8. $40.00 paper. ISBN 978-1-78527-252-3.

Litvack, Leon, and Nathalie Vanfasse, eds. Reading Dickens Differently. Chichester UK, Malden MA, and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. Pp. 280. $50.00. ISBN 978-1-119-60222-4.

Lysack, Krista. Chronometres: Devotional Literature, Duration, and Victorian Reading. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. 240. $70.00. ISBN 978-0-1988-3616-2.

Mangham, Andrew, and Daniel Lea, eds. The Male Body in Medicine and Literature. Liverpool English Texts and Studies 72. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xii + 252. £85.00. ISBN 978-1-78694-052-0.

Marcus, Sharon. The Drama of Celebrity. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. vi + 322. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-691-17759-5.

May, Leila Silvana. Secrecy and Disclosure in Victorian Fiction. Among the Victorians and the Modernists. Series ed. Dennis Denisoff. London and New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. x + 246. $165.00. ISBN 978-1-4724-8439-0.

Mayhew, Henry. London Labour and the London Poor: Selections. Eds. Janice Schroeder and Barbara Leckie. Broadview Editions. Series ed. Martin R. Boyne. Peterborough ON and Tonawanda NY: Broadview, 2020 (paper only). Pp. 376. $19.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-55481-339-1.

McCarthy, Anne C. Awful Parenthesis: Suspension and the Sublime in Romantic and Victorian Poetry. Toronto, Buffalo NY, and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2018. Pp. x + 222. $75.00. ISBN 978-1-4875-0291-1.

Meeuwis, Michael. Everyone’s Theater: Literature and Daily Life in England, 1860–1914. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 220. $70.00. ISBN 978-0-472-13147-1.

Meredith, George. Modern Love. Ed. Elisha Cohn. Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Gen. eds. Joseph Black, Leonard Conolly, Kate Flint, Isobel Grundy, Don LePan, Roy Liuzza, Jerome J. McGann, Anne Lake Prescott, Jason Rudy, and Claire Waters. Peterborough ON: Broadview, 2019 (paper only). Pp. 108. $14.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-5548-1483-1.

Morrison, Kevin A., ed. Walter Besant: The Business of Literature and the Pleasures of Reform. Liverpool English Texts and Studies 76. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 252. £80.00. ISBN 978-1-789-62035-1.

Muir, Rory. Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune: How Younger Sons Made Their Way in Jane Austen’s England. New Haven and London: Yale Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xvi + 376. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-300-24431-1.

Nettelbeck, Amanda. Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood: Protection and Reform in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. viii + 232. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-47175-6.

Pierse, Michael, ed. A History of Irish Working-Class Writing. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xx + 468. $110.00. ISBN 978-1-107-14968-7.

Pladek, Brittany. The Poetics of Palliation: Romantic Literary Therapy, 1790–1850. Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1780–1850. Series eds. Tim Fulford and Alan Vardy. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. x + 290. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-78694-221-0.

Porter, Jane. Jane Porter, Thaddeus of Warsaw: A Novel. Eds. Thomas McLean and Ruth Knezevich. Edinburgh Critical Editions of Nineteenth-Century Texts. Series ed. Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. 440. $110. ISBN 978-147-444-347-0.

Price, Cheryl Blake. Chemical Crimes: Science and Poison in Victorian Crime Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. viii +196. $69.95. ISBN 978-0-8142-1391-9.

Queen Victoria. My Dearest, Dearest Albert: Queen Victoria’s Life Through Her Letters and Journals. Ed. Karen Dolby. London: Michael O’Mara Books, 2018. Pp. 186. $16.95. ISBN 978-1-78243-967-7.

Rejack, Brian, and Michael Theune, eds. Keats’s Negative Capability: New Origins and Afterlives. Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1780–1850. Series eds. Tim Fulford and Alan Vardy. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xxii + 302. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-7869-4181-7.

Reno, Seth T. Amorous Aesthetics: Intellectual Love in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, 1788–1853. Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1780–1850. Series eds. Tim Fulford and Alan Vardy. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. x + 248. £85.00. ISBN 978-1-786-94083.

Robinson, Jeffrey C. Poetic Innovation in Wordsworth, 1825–1833: Fibres of These Thoughts. Anthem Nineteenth-Century Series. Series ed. Robert Douglas. London and New York: Anthem Press, 2019. Pp. xviii + 350. $125.00. ISBN 978-1-78308-940-6.

Scobie, Ruth. Celebrity Culture and the Myth of Oceania in Britain, 1770–1823. Studies in the Eighteenth Century. Series eds. Ros Ballaster, Matthew Grenby, Robert D. Hume, Mark Knights, and Renaud Morieux. Woodbridge UK and Rochester NY: Boydell Press (in association with the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)/Boydell and Brewer, 2019. Pp. viii + 208. $99.00. ISBN 978-1-78327-408-6.

Shaw, Bernard. Bernard Shaw and William Archer. Ed. Thomas Postlewait. Selected Correspondence of Bernard Shaw. Gen. ed. L. W. Conolly. Toronto, Buffalo NY, and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2017. Pp. cii + 450. $97.00. ISBN 978-0-8020-4122-7.

Stewart, Susan. The Ruins Lesson: Meaning and Material in Western Culture. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2020. Pp. 368. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-226-63261-2.

Tave, Stuart M. Some Words of Jane Austen. Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2019 (paper only). Pp. xii + 300. $20.00 paper. ISBN 978-0-226-63339-8.

Thomas, Jayne. Tennyson Echoing Wordsworth. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press (distributed in the USA by Oxford Univ. Press), 2019. Pp. vi + 212. $110.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-3687-8.

Thomas, Richard Gough. William Godwin: A Political Life. London: Pluto, 2019. Pp. viii + 168. $99.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-7453-3836-1. $24.00 paper. ISBN 978-0-7453-3835-4.

Toner, Anne. Jane Austen’s Style: Narrative Economy and the Novel’s Growth. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. 220. $24.99. ISBN 978-1108-43940-4.

Washington, Chris. Romantic Revelations: Visions of Post-Apocalyptic Life and Hope in the Anthropocene. Toronto, Buffalo NY, and London: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2019. Pp. x + 256. $65.00. ISBN 978-1-4875-0450-2.

Wells, H. G. When the Sleeper Wakes. Ed. John Sutherland. Peterborough ON and Tonawanda NY: Broadview, 2019 (paper only). Pp. 294. $17.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-55481-352-0.

Wenzell, Tim, ed. Woven Shades of Green: An Anthology of Irish Nature Literature. Lewisburg PA: Bucknell Univ. Press (distributed by Rutgers Univ. Press), 2019. Pp. xxii + 370. $79.95 cloth. ISBN 978-1-6844-8138-5. $29.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-6844-8137-8.

Wharton, Joanna. Material Enlightenment: Women Writers and the Science of Mind, 1770–1830. Studies in the Eighteenth Century. Series eds. Ros Ballaster, Matthew Grenby, Robert D. Hume, Mark Knights, and Renaud Morieux. Woodbridge UK and Rochester NY: Boydell Press (in association with the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)/Boydell and Brewer, 2018. Pp. xii + 276. $99.00. ISBN 978-1-78327-295-2.

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ed. Michael Patrick Gillespie. Third Norton Critical Edn. New York and London: W. W. Norton, 2020 (paper only). Pp. xvi + 520. $21.25 paper. ISBN 978-0-393-69687-5.

Williams, James. Edward Lear. Writers and Their Work. Gen. ed. Isobel Armstrong. Devon UK: Northcote House (distributed by Liverpool Univ. Press), 2018. Pp. xxiv + 176. £55.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-7463-1221-6. £16.99 paper. ISBN 978-0-7463-1222-3.

Williams, Todd O. Christina Rossetti’s Environmental Consciousness. Routledge Studies in World Literature and the Environment. Series eds. Scott Slovic and Swarnalatha Rangarajan. London and New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. x + 166. $140.00. ISBN 978-0-367-11204-2.

Yen, Brandon C. “The Excursion” and Wordsworth’s Iconography. Romantic Reconfigurations: Studies in Literature and Culture, 1780–1850. Series eds. Tim Fulford and Alan Vardy. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2018. Pp. xiv + 322. £95.00. ISBN 978-1-78694-133-6.

Young, Arlene. From Spinster to Career Woman: Middle-Class Women and Work in Victorian England. Montreal, Kingston ON, London, and Chicago: McGill-Queen’s Univ. Press, 2019. Pp. xii + 220. $110.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-7735-5706-2. $29.95 paper. ISBN 978-0-7735-5707-9.

Ziolkowski, Theodore. Stages of European Romanticism. Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Rochester NY: Boydell and Brewer, 2018. Pp. xiv + 255. $95.00. ISBN 978-1-64014-042-4.