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Clara Dawson VICTORIAN POETRY AND THE CULTURE OF EVALUATION (Oxford, 2020). x + 256 pp. Reviewed by Justin Sider on 2020-11-05 Victorian Poetry
In Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth (1883), George Meredith takes a crack at reviewers in a pleasingly clumsy sonnet entitled "The Point of Taste," which speaks to his fellow poets: Unhappy poets of a sunken prime! You to reviewers are as ball to bat. Click here to read the full review.

Winter Jade Werner Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Ohio State, 2020) xi + 210 pp. Reviewed by Mary Ellis Gibson on 2020-11-02
By age twelve I was satiated with Baptist sermons. Click here to read the full review.

Lisa C. Robertson HOME AND IDENTITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERARY LONDON (Edinburgh, 2020) vii + 215 pp. Reviewed by Ruth McAdams on 2020-10-28 Literature and Architecture
Ranging from 1880 to 1920, this book examines literary representations of new experiments in urban architecture that were necessitated by a growing population. Click here to read the full review.

Beth Barton Schweiger A LITERATE SOUTH: READING BEFOR EMANCIPATION (Yale, 2019) xxxiii + 258 pp. Reviewed by Barbara Hochman on 2020-10-21
This book challenges the "orthodox" view of the antebellum South as an illiterate culture (199). Click here to read the full review.

Andrea Charise THE AESTHETICS OF SENESCENCE: AGING, POPULATION, AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL (SUNY, 2020) xlv + 194 pp. Reviewed by Alice Crossley on 2020-10-16
This welcome study shows how nineteenth-century British novels about aging intersect with historical debates across multiple disciplines. Click here to read the full review.

Ian Haywood THE RISE OF VICTORIAN CARICATURE (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) xvii + 296 pp. Reviewed by Richard Scully on 2020-10-16 Victorian Studies
Scholarship on Victorian-era cartooning and caricature has lately been undergoing a quiet resurgence. Click here to read the full review.