Review-Essays

Peggy Davis

Recent Criticism of the Poetess: A Review Essay

Issue #29-30 Full Text

Bruce Robbins

Mary Poovey’s Anxiety: Mary Poovey. Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century Britain. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780226675336. Price: US$24

Issue #54 Full Text

Laurie Langbauer

Consumerism and the Archive: Krista Lysack’s Come Buy, Come Buy: Shopping and the Culture of Consumption in Victorian Women’s Writing. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780821418109. Price: US$49.95

Brent Shannon’s The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914 (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780821417027. Price: US$49.95

Issue #54 Full Text

Maureen N. McLane

British Romanticism Unbound: Reading William St Clair’s The Reading Nation

Issue #56 Full Text

Emily Steinlight

Speculation and Its Discontents: Economic Criticism, Literary History, and the Unpredictable Pleasures of Victorian Fiction — Tamara S. Wagner. Financial Speculation in Victorian Fiction: Plotting Money and the Novel Genre, 1815-1901. Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2010. ISBN: 9780814211199. Price: US$44.95

Kathleen Blake. Pleasure of Benthamism: Victorian Literature, Utility, Political Economy. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009. ISBN: 9789199563265. Price: £56/US$95

Issue #57-58 Full Text

John Savarese et Colin Jager

Cognition, Culture, Romanticism: Lisa Zunshine, ed. Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2010. ISBN: 9780801894886. Price: US$35

Alan Richardson. The Neural Sublime: Cognitive Theories and Romantic Texts. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2010. ISBN: 9780801894534. Price: US$35

Issue #57-58 Full Text

Joel Faflak

“Re-Collecting De Quincey” – A Review-essay of The Works of Thomas De Quincey. Gen. ed. Grevel Lindop. 21 Volumes. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2000-2003. ISBN 1851960546 (for the complete set). Price: £1650/US$2775

Issue #40 Full Text