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Claire Connolly, ed. IRISH LITERATURE IN TRANSITION [VOLUME II], 1780-1830 (Cambridge, 2020) xvi + 439 pp. Reviewed by Patrick R. O'Malley on 2021-04-09
Quick: what happened in Irish literary history in 1780? How about 1830? One of the challenges of conceptualizing Irish literature in terms of periods (romantic, for example, or Victorian) is that the customary narratives of cultural and political development don't quite apply: 1798 might have more salience than 1789, 1829 more than 1837. Click here to read the full review.

Jonah Siegel MATERIAL INSPIRATIONS: THE INTERESTS OF THE ART OBJECT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER (Oxford, 2020) xxviii + 373 pp. Reviewed by Elizabeth Helsinger on 2021-03-19
There is more than one way to read this fine book. Click here to read the full review.

Clare Pettitt SERIAL FORMS: THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF MODERNITY, 1815-1848 (Oxford, 2020) xviii + 368pp. Reviewed by Matthew Poland on 2021-03-15 Victorian Culture
"THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII EVERY EVENING," reads an advertisement displayed just above the figures at left in John Parry's painting A London Street Scene (1835). Click here to read the full review.

Garrett Stewart THE ONE, OTHER, AND ONLY DICKENS (Ithaca and London: Cornell, 2018) pp. xxv + 216. Reviewed by Wendy Veronica Xin on 2021-02-22 Victorian Novel
Familiar as we might already be with Boz the social commentator and master-plotter, this book reveals an "Other" Dickens lurking silently in his novels all along, if only we could hear him. Click here to read the full review.

Justin Tonra Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore (Routledge, 2021) xiv + 193pp. Reviewed by Julia M. Wright on 2021-02-22
Justin Tonra's study offers a welcome new twist in Moore studies. Click here to read the full review.

Will Abberley MIMICRY AND DISPLAY IN VICTORIAN LITERARY CULTURE: NATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERARY IMAGINATION (Cambridge, 2020) vii + 293 pp. Reviewed by Laura Dassow Walls on 2021-02-21 Literature and Science
Charles Darwin closed his massive book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) with two memorable images suggesting the breakdown of ancient barriers dividing human and animal. Click here to read the full review.