September 23, 2023
The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers by Lindsey Eckert “The Limits of Familiarity draws on a wealth of source material from the prose nonfiction framework that scaffolds literary… READ MORE
Alimentary Orientalism: Britain’s Literary Imagination and the Edible East by Yin Yuan “The analysis is convincing, grounded in close reading and always in dialogue with other scholars . . …. READ MORE
Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in France by Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden “In this engaging and informative book, Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden explore how, in late… READ MORE
Families of the Heart: Surrogate Relations in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Ann Campbell “Engagingly written and narratively taut, Families of the Heart is well worth reading for scholars of… READ MORE
Play in the Age of Goethe: Theories, Narratives, and Practices of Play around 1800 edited by Edgar Landgraf and Elliott Schreiber “[Play in the Age of Goethe] is another impressive… READ MORE
The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers by Lindsey Eckert “The Limits of Familiarity uses an impressive array of archival materials and its case studies are meticulously detailed.” —Times… READ MORE
The Aesthetic Border: Columbian Literature in the Face of Globalization by Brantley Nicholson “El profesor B. Nicholson, conocedor como pocos de la Colombia profunda y escindida, ha logrado adentrarse en… READ MORE
Edna O’Brien and the Art of Fiction by Maureen O’Connor “O’Connor’s close readings, coupled with a deft use of theory, nimbly move between texts in O’Brien’s oeuvre, highlighting recurring images… READ MORE
Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District: A Geographical Text Analysis by Joanna E. Taylor and Ian N. Gregory “In this ambitious book, Joanna Taylor and Ian Gregory marry a conventional… READ MORE
Transatlantic Women Travelers, 1688-1843 edited by Misty Krueger “The volume’s organization, meant to question (and push) boundaries between real and imagined travel, between ‘factual’ and ‘fictional’ accounts, is useful. Its… READ MORE
