November 15, 2023
The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century by Heidi Schlipphacke “Schlipphacke’s focus on dramatic tableaux and tableaux vivants, gesture, and props offers genuinely new ways… READ MORE
November 14, 2023
Deep Mapping the Literary Lake District: A Geographical Text Analysis by Joanna E. Taylor and Ian N. Gregory “Joanna Taylor and Ian Gregory . . . forge a novel methodology… READ MORE
The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers by Lindsey Eckert “. . . a complex, enticing picture of Romantic celebrity—one that expands the terrain beyond the stories we’re used… READ MORE
Narrative Mourning: Death and Its Relics in the Eighteenth-Century British Novel by Kathleen M. Oliver “In her conclusion, Oliver helpfully elides the differences between the novel of sensibility and the… READ MORE
October 5, 2023
The Aesthetics of Kinship: Form and Family in the Long Eighteenth Century by Heidi Schlipphacke “The Aesthetics of Kinship is a challenging but rewarding study. It forces the reader to… READ MORE
October 4, 2023
Political Affairs of the Heart: Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775–1800 by Linda Van Netten Blimke “In Political Affairs of the Heart, Van Netten Blimke insightfully analyzes… READ MORE
Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities edited by Jeremy Chow “Bringing together eleven tightly argued essays in a cohesive, innovative, and approachable volume, Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities embodies the deeply generative possibilities of envisioning… READ MORE
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
