“The Limits of Familiarity” is “satisfyingly thorough”
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...
View Article“Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities” is “cohesive, innovative, and...
Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities edited by Jeremy Chow “Bringing together eleven tightly argued essays in a cohesive, innovative, and approachable volume, Eighteenth-Century Environmental...
View ArticleEighteenth-Century Fiction praises “Political Affairs of the Heart”
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...
View Article“The Aesthetics of Kinship” is “rewarding”
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 reconsider...
View Article“Narrative Mourning”“will continue to have relevance for many years to come”
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...
View Article“The Limits of Familiarity” is “complex, enticing”
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 to.”...
View Article“Deep Mapping” is “compelling and engaging”
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 in their compelling and...
View ArticleMonatshefte commends “The Aesthetics of Kinship”
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...
View Article“Velocipedomania” is “immensely enjoyable”
Velocipedomania: A Cultural History of the Velocipede in Franceby Corry Cropper and Seth Whidden “In this immensely enjoyable and highly original volume brimming with illustrations, helpful notes,...
View Article“The Limits of Familiarity” is “required reading”
The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readersby Lindsey Eckert “Required reading for anyone interested in the history of Romantic readerships, media history, or the culture of celebrity,...
View Article“Antigone’s Ghosts”“is a bold undertaking”
Antigone’s Ghosts: The Long Legacy of War and Genocide in Five Countries by Mark Wolfgram “Antigone’s Ghosts is a bold undertaking, and a book that should inspire the field to engage in a more...
View Article“British Literature and Technology” is “compelling”
British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830 edited by Kristin M. Girten and Aaron R. Hanlon “By focusing exclusively on humanity’s unruly tools, this book opens a compelling ‘mosaic’ view of...
View Article“The Limits of Familiarity” is “fascinating”
The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers by Lindsey Eckert “In this fascinating analysis of Romantic-era readership and reading practices, Lindsey Eckert explores the complex...
View Article“Between Market and Myth” makes “a remarkable contribution”
Between Market and Myth: The Spanish Artist Novel in the Post-Transition, 1992–2014 By Katie J. Vater “Vater’s volume is a remarkable contribution to studies of the contemporary Spanish novel, and its...
View Article“Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World”“offers a fresh view”
Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World edited by Carrie L. Ruiz and Elena Rodríguez-Guridi “Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World offers a fresh view of an old process that goes back to...
View Article“Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World” is “especially generative”
Shipwreck in the Early Modern Hispanic World edited by Carrie L. Ruiz and Elena Rodríguez-Guridi “Given present-day interests in media archaeology, ecocriticism, and new materialisms, shipwreck offers...
View Article“Indiscreet Fantasies” is “compelling”
Indiscreet Fantasies: Iberian Queer Cinema edited by Andrés Lema-Hincapié and Conxita Domènech “Indiscreet Fantasies . . . is a compelling and pedagogical collection of essays written by many...
View Article“Revista Letral” commends “Calila”
Calila: The Later Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite By Joan L. Brown “Joan L. Brown consigue con Calila: The Later Novels of Carmen Martín Gaite refrescar y actualizar la bibliografíaya extensa sobre la...
View Article“Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies” reviews “Indiscreet Fantasies”
Indiscreet Fantasies: Iberian Queer Cinema edited by Andrés Lema-Hincapié and Conxita Domènech “Los editores Andrés Lema-Hincapié y Conxita Domènech manifiestan el deseo de que el libro sea útil...
View Article“Dante in Deutschland” is “game-changing”
Dante in Deutschland: An Itinerary of Romantic Myth by Daniel DiMassa “Dante in Deutschland is one of those rare scholarly books that is both game-changing and thoroughly embedded within existing...
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