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Thomas H. Ford
WORDSWORTH AND THE POETICS OF AIR
(Cambridge, 2018) x + 269 pp.
Reviewed by Scott Hess
on 2019-09-16.
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The scope of Ford's book is much broader than its title suggests. While William Wordsworth's poetry does feature intermittently as a recurring touchstone, the book ranges widely over many Romantic discourses and disciplines, both British and German, to demonstrate the significance of atmosphere as a major trope of the Romantic period. Ford documents how this widely diffused interest in atmosphere...
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Christopher Taylor
EMPIRE OF NEGLECT: THE WEST INDIES IN THE WAKE OF BRITISH LIBERALISM
(Duke, 2018) xi+307 pp.
Reviewed by
on 2019-08-26.
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This is a brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed study of British West Indian writing between approximately 1776 (the year that The Wealth of Nations was published among other world-historical occurrences) and 1860. The study's key archival "attunement," to use one of the author's favored terms, is to the various ways that West Indian Anglophone writers rejected the liberal market...
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Ian Haywood, Susan Matthews, and Mary L. Shannon, eds.
ROMANTICISM AND ILLUSTRATION
(Cambridge, 2019) xv + 325 pp.
Reviewed by Grant Scott
on 2019-08-22.
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By rights, the present collection of essays should be dedicated to Thomas Stothard, the patron saint of book illustration, and feature his portrait as its frontispiece. After all, his name appears on practically every page. Though little known today, Stothard was the most prolific and versatile illustrator of his time, executing over 5,000 designs and playing a part in many of the most important...
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Linda Freedman
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE MYTH OF AMERICA: FROM THE ABOLITIONISTS TO THE COUNTERCULTURE
(Oxford, 2019) xiv + 273 pp.
Reviewed by Andrew Lincoln
on 2019-08-14.
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Linda Freedman's wide-ranging and consistently illuminating study is an important contribution to the burgeoning field of Blake reception studies. Ranging from early American re-printings of Blake poems in the 1830s and 1840s to the political activism of Paul Chan in the twenty-first century, Freedman examines religious writers, countercultural poets, musicians, novelists, and film-makers. To encompass...
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Trenton B. Olsen
WORDSWORTH AND EVOLUTION IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE: ENTANGLED INFLUENCE
(Routledge, 2019) xii + 182 pp.
Reviewed by Robert M. Ryan
on 2019-07-28.
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Except in college catalogues, the dividing line between the Romantic and Victorian periods of English literature appears to be fading. The date of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne--1837--seems increasingly less useful for understanding the literary history of the nineteenth century. Wordsworth, for example, went on writing poetry for 13 years after Victoria's coronation and his prestige and...
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