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Kendall McClellan VIRTUOUS CITIZENS: COUNTERPUBLICS AND SOCIOPOLITICAL AGENCY IN TRANSATLANTIC LITERATURE (U of Alabama P, 2021) 182 pp. Reviewed by Ashley Reed on 2022-05-22 American Literature
This book joins recent critical attempts to expand definitions of citizenship beyond those bounded solely by the franchise and to show how politically marginalized people increasingly entered into a late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century public sphere that was dominated by upper-class men's values and voices. Click here to read the full review.

Dara Rossman Regaignon WRITING MATERNITY: MEDICINE, ANXIETY, RHETORIC, AND GENRE (Ohio State, 2021) xvi + 186 pp. Reviewed by Livia Arndal Woods on 2022-04-20
Today, I rushed from one grocery store where the organic whole milk was sold out to another grocery store rather than buying organic 2% milk or non-organic whole milk. Click here to read the full review.

Tina Young Choi VICTORIAN CONTINGENCIES: EXPERIMENTS IN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND PLAY (Stanford, 2022) xi + 246 pp. Reviewed by David Sweeney on 2022-04-06 Victorian Science
In October 1918, René Dujarric de la Rivière, a French Army doctor, had himself injected with a flu patient's blood that he had passed through a bacteria-straining Pasteur-Chamberland filter. Click here to read the full review.

Rachel Teukolsky PICTURE WORLD: IMAGE, AESTHETICS, AND VICTORIAN NEW MEDIA (Oxford 2020, vi-461 pp.) Reviewed by Frederick D. King on 2022-03-28 Victorian Art
Just over a dozen years ago, Rachel Teukolsky surveyed the art criticism of nineteenth-century Britain in The Literate Eyes: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics (2009). Click here to read the full review.

Jonathan Newell A CENTURY OF WEIRD FICTION, 1832-1937: DISGUST, METAPHYSICS, AND THE AESTHETICS OF COSMIC HORROR (Wales / Chicago, 2020) x + 241 pp. Reviewed by Monika Elbert and Wendy Ryden on 2022-03-24 Weird and Horror Fiction
Jonathan Newell's treatment of weird fiction follows the recent trend to de-romanticize the Gothic and align it with pulp fiction. Click here to read the full review.

Eve Tavor Bannet THE LETTERS IN THE STORY: NARRATIVE-EPISTOLARY FICTION FROM APHRA BEHN TO THE VICTORIANS (Cambridge, 2022) xviii + 276 Reviewed by Laura Rotunno on 2022-03-19 Epistolary Fiction
Eve Tavor Bannet established her foothold in epistolary scholarship with Empire of Letters (2005), which argued that letter manuals taught 18th-century novel readers how to grasp the epistolary structure--letter literacy or "letteracy"--of fiction. Click here to read the full review.