Autumn 2022 Books Received
Abberley, Will. Mimicry and Display in Victorian Literary Culture: Nature, Science, and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 123. Gen. ed. Gillian Beer. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. viii + 304. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-47759-8.
Barbeau, Jeffrey W., ed. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 360. $99.99 cloth. ISBN 978-1-108-48284-4. $29.99 paper. ISBN 978-1-108-71105-0.
Baynes, Tom. Tennyson and Goethe’s “Faust”. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. xvii + 238. $110.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-8852-5.
Chen, Chung-jen. Victorian Contagion: Risk and Social Control in the Victorian Literary Imagination. Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature 54. New York and London: Routledge, 2020. Pp. x + 324. $128.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-367-36064-1. $39.16 paper. ISBN 978-1-03-208993-5.
Coffey, Bysshe Inigo. Shelley’s Broken World: Fractured Materiality and Intermitted Song. Liverpool English Texts and Studies 89. Liverpool: Liverpool Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. xxii + 230. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-80085-538-0.
Coluzzi, Federica. Dante Beyond Influence: Rethinking Reception in Victorian Literary Culture. Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Series eds. Anna Barton and Andrew Smith. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. viii + 244. £80.00. ISBN 978-1-5261-5244-2.
Correa, Delia da Sousa, ed. The Edinburgh Companion to Literature and Music. Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. xviii + 730. $235.00. ISBN 978-0-7486-9312-2.
Cox, Jeffrey N. William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic: Contesting Poetry after Waterloo. Cambridge Studies in Romanticism. Gen. ed. James Chandler. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 280. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-83761-3.
Davies, Luke Lewin. The Tramp in British Literature, 1850–1950. Cham CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xvi + 350. $139.99. ISBN 978-3-030-73431-2.
Davis, Michael F., and Petra Dierkes-Thrun, eds. Wilde’s Other Worlds. Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature 37. New York and London: Routledge, 2018. Pp. xviii + 310. $128.00. ISBN 978-0-8153-6359-0.
de Groote, Brecht. Thomas De Quincey: Romanticism in Translation. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism. Series eds. Ian Duncan and Penny Fielding. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. x + 206. $100.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-8389-6.
Desmarais, Jane. Monsters under Glass: A Cultural History of Hothouse Flowers from 1850 to the Present. London: Reaktion Books, 2018. Pp. 248. £25.00. ISBN 978-1-78023-975-0.
Diedrick, James, ed. Mathilde Blind: Selected “Fin-de-Siècle” Poetry and Prose. MHRA Critical Texts 70. Ed. Stefano Evangelista. Jewelled Tortoise 6. Ed. Stefano Evangelista and Catherine Maxwell. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association, 2021. Pp. x + 278. $48.99. ISBN 978-1-78188-963-3.
Draxler, Bridget, and Danielle Spratt. Engaging the Age of Jane Austen: Public Humanities in Practice. Humanities and Public Life. Series eds. Teresa Mangum and Anne Valk. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 2018 (paper only). Pp. xx + 286. $55.00 paper. ISBN 978-1-60938-614-6.
Edney, Sue, ed. EcoGothic Gardens in the Long Nineteenth Century: Phantoms, Fantasy, and Uncanny Flowers. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. xviii + 222. $130.00. ISBN 978-1-5261-4568-0.
Edwards, Gavin. The Case of the Initial Letter: Charles Dickens and the Politics of the Dual Alphabet. Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century. Series eds. Anna Barton and Andrew Smith. Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. x + 176. $130.00. ISBN 978-1-5261-4629-8.
Evans, Anne-Marie, and Kaley Kramer, eds. Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination. Literary Urban Studies. Series eds. Lieven Ameel, Jason Finch, Eric Prieto, and Markku Salmela. Cham CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xx + 274. $119.99. ISBN 978-3-030-55960-1.
Federico, Annette R., ed. My Victorian Novel: Critical Essays in the Personal Voice. Foreword by Jane Tompkins. Columbia: Univ. of Missouri Press, 2020. Pp. xiv + 316. $36.00. ISBN 978-0-826-22207-7.
Frankel, Nicholas. The Invention of Oscar Wilde. London: Reaktion Books, 2021. Pp. 288. £18.00. ISBN 978-1-78914-414-7.
Gagné, Ann. Embodying the Tactile in Victorian Literature: Touching Bodies/Bodies Touching. Lanham MD, Boulder CO, New York, and London: Lexington Books, 2021. Pp. viii + 142. $90.00. ISBN 978-1-7936-1730-9.
Hardyment, Christina. Novel Houses: Twenty Famous Fictional Dwellings. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2020. Pp. 250. $40.00. ISBN 978-1-85124-480-5.
Hofer-Robinson, Joanna. Dickens and Demolition: Literary Afterlives and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Urban Development. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture. Series ed. Julian Wolfreys. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2020 (paper only). Pp. xvi + 250. $33.95. ISBN 978-1-4744-6273-0.
Hunt, Peter. The Making of Lewis Carroll’s Alice and the Invention of Wonderland. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2020 (paper only). Pp. 128. $25.00. ISBN 978-1-85124-532-1.
Jackson, Roland, Nicola Jackson, and Daniel Brown, eds. The Poetry of John Tyndall. Comparative Literature and Culture. Series eds. Timothy Mathews and Florian Mussgnug. London: University College London, 2020. Pp. xii + 228. £45.00 cloth. ISBN 978-1-78735-912-3. £25.00 paper. ISBN 978-1-78735-911-6.
James, Henry. The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884–1886: Volume 2. Ed. Michael Anesko and Greg W. Zacharias. The Complete Letters of Henry James. Gen eds. Michael Anesko and Greg W. Zacharias. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2021. Pp. xxxii + 342. $90.00. ISBN 978-1-4962-2665-5.
Johnston, Freya. Jane Austen: Early and Late. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. xvi + 280. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-691-19800-2.
Lawlor, Clark, and Andrew Mangham, eds. Literature and Medicine: The Nineteenth Century 2. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 256. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-42074-4.
Lee, Louise, ed. Victorian Comedy and Laughter: Conviviality, Jokes, and Dissent. Cham CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xiv + 362. $159.99. ISBN 978-1-137-57881-5.
Lesjak, Carolyn. The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 244. $90.00 cloth. ISBN 989-1-15036-1508-3. $30.00 paper. ISBN 978-1-5036-2782-6.
Lloyd, Martha. Martha Lloyd’s Household Book: The Original Manuscript from Jane Austen’s Kitchen. Introduction by Julienne Gehrer. Foreword by Deirdre Le Faye. Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2021. Pp. xvi + 172. $45.00. ISBN 978-1-85124-560-4.
Logan, Heidi. Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction. Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature 39. New York and London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. x + 268. $128.00. ISBN 978-1-138-31990-5.
Luetkenhaus, Holly, and Zoe Weinstein. Austentatious: The Evolving World of Jane Austen Fans. Fandom and Culture. Series eds. Paul Booth and Katherine Larsen. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press, 2019 (paper only). Pp. x + 188. $27.50 paper. ISBN 978-1-60938-639-9.
McNeil, Kenneth. Scottish Romanticism and Collective Memory in the British Atlantic. Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism. Series eds. Ian Duncan and Penny Fielding. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2020. Pp. viii + 376. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-4744-5546-6.
Michals, Teresa. Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson’s Navy. Peculiar Bodies: Stories and Histories. Series eds. Carolyn Day, Chris Mounsey, and Wendy J. Turner. Charlottesville and London: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 274. $115.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-8139-4672-6. $39.50 paper. ISBN 978-0-8139-4673-3.
Miller, Elizabeth Carolyn. Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. xvi + 288. $95.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-691-20526-7. $35.00 paper. ISBN 978-0-691-20553-3.
Miskimmin, Esme, ed. 100 British Crime Writers. Crime Files. Series ed. Clive Bloom. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xl + 434. $79.99. ISBN 978-0-230-20364-8.
Moulds, Alison. Medical Identities and Print Culture, 1830s–1910s. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science, and Medicine. Series eds. Sharon Ruston, Alice Jenkins, and Jessica Howell. Cham CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xiv + 292. $119.99. ISBN 978-3-030-74344-4.
Mullan, John. The Artful Dickens: The Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. Pp. x + 438. $28.00. ISBN 978-1-4088-6681-8.
Nagai, Kaori. Imperial Beast Fables: Animals, Cosmopolitanism, and the British Empire. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Series eds. Susan McHugh, Robert McKay, and John Miller. Cham CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. Pp. xiv + 254. $109.99. ISBN 978-3-030-51492-1.
Newhoff, David. Who Invented Oscar Wilde?: The Photograph at the Center of Modern American Copyright. Lincoln: Potomac Books, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2020. Pp. xviii + 284. $32.95. ISBN 978-1-64012-158-4.
Osteen, Mark. Fake It: Fictions of Forgery. Charlottesville and London: Univ. of Virginia Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 360. $95.00 cloth. ISBN 978-0-8139-4626-9. $34.50 paper. 978-0-8139-4627-6.
Pokorny, Lukas, and Franz Winter, eds. The Occult Nineteenth Century: Roots, Developments, and Impact on the Modern World. Palgrave Studies in Religions and Alternative Spiritualities. Series eds. James R. Lewis and Henrik Bogdan. Cham CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xii + 448. $159.99. ISBN 978-3-030-55317-3.
Potter, Franz J. Gothic Chapbooks, Bluebooks, and Shilling Shockers, 1797–1830. Gothic Literary Studies. Series eds. Andrew Smith and Benjamin F. Fisher. Cardiff: Univ. of Wales Press, 2021. Pp. x + 260. $88.00. ISBN 978-1-78683-670-0.
Reader, Simon. Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style. Stanford Text Technologies. Series eds. Ruth Ahnert and Elaine Treharne. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 244. $65.00. ISBN 978-1-5036-1526-7.
Richards, Joan L. Generations of Reason: A Family’s Search for Meaning in Post-Newtonian England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 442. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-300-25549-2.
Richardson, Rebecca. Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. xii + 260. $99.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-4196-2.
Robinson, Alistair. Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Gen. eds. Kate Flint and Clare Pettitt. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2022. Pp. xii + 264. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-316-51985-1.
Ruston, Sharon. The Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein.” Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2021. Pp. viii + 152. $40.00. ISBN 978-1-85124-557-4.
Shelley, Mary. Monsters: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Mathilda. Introduction by Claire Millikin Raymond. New York: 2Leaf Press, 2018 (paper only). Pp. iv + 384. $21.99. ISBN 978-1-940939-70-4.
Simmons, Clare A. Medievalist Traditions in Nineteenth-Century British Culture: Celebrating the Calendar Year. Medievalism 20. Series eds. Karl Fugelso and Chris Jones. Woodbridge UK and Rochester NY: D. S. Brewer, 2021. Pp. xvi + 222. $99.00. ISBN 978-1-84384-573-7.
Stiles, Anne. Children’s Literature and the Rise of ‘Mind Cure’: Positive Thinking and Pseudo-Science at the Fin de Siècle. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture. Gen. eds. Kate Flint and Clare Pettitt. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. xiv + 262. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-83094-2.
Sugg, Richard. Fairies: A Dangerous History. London: Reaktion Books, 2018 (paper only). Pp. 280. £12.95 paper. ISBN 978-1-78914-120-7.
Sussman, Matthew. Stylistic Virtue and Victorian Fiction: Form, Ethics, and the Novel. Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture 130. Gen. eds. Kate Flint and Clare Pettitt. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021. Pp. viii + 268. $99.99. ISBN 978-1-108-83294-6.
Talairach, Laurence. Animals, Museum Culture, and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Series eds. Susan McHugh, Robert McKay, and John Miller. Cham CH: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. Pp. xiv + 314. $139.99. ISBN 978-3-030-72526-6.
Tholfsen, Trygve. Working Class Radicalism in Mid-Victorian England. Routledge Revivals. New York and London: Routledge, 2019. Pp. 334. $112.00. ISBN 978-0-367-85831-5.