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Timothy Whelan and Julia B. Griffin, eds.
NONCONFORMIST WOMEN WRITERS, 1720-1840, PART I
(Pickering and Chatto: London, 2011). Vol. 1 (ed. Griffin), lxvi, 374 pp.; vol. 2 (ed. Griffin), xii, 376 pp; vol. 3 (ed. Whelan), ix, 476 pp.; vol. 4 (ed. Whelan), ix, 356 pp.
Reviewed by Christine L. Krueger
on 2012-01-27.
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Like other Pickering and Chatto series, this one in two four-volume parts--of which this is the first-- will be a welcome addition to library collections because of its excellent scholarly standards and high production quality. But at $625 per part, its volumes are unlikely to find their way onto...
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Patrick Parrinder and Andrzej Gasiorek, eds.
The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume 3: The Reinvention of the British and Irish Novel 1880-1940
(Oxford, 2011), xxv + 633 pp.
Reviewed by Laurence Davies
on 2012-01-27.
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This is the first to appear of what will be a twelve-volume series under the general editorship of Patrick Parrinder. Another volume, The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880, has just appeared, and three more cover...
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Lynda Pratt, Ian Packer, (eds.) Tim Fulford and Caroline Bolton (Assistant Editors), and Laura Mandell (Technical Editor)
THE COLLECTED LETTERS OF ROBERT SOUTHEY PART 2 (1798-1803)
A Romantic Circles electronic edition [2011]
Reviewed by Stuart Andrews
on 2012-01-27.
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Robert Southey was far more than one of the Lake poets. Although known now as the Poet Laureate ridiculed by Byron and Hazlitt, Byron himself described the newly appointed laureate in 1813 as "the only existing entire man of letters." This second part of the emerging eight-part online edition of all...
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Denise Gigante
THE KEATS BROTHERS: THE LIFE OF JOHN AND GEORGE
(Harvard University Press, 2011) xi + 499 pp.
Reviewed by R. S. White
on 2012-01-17.
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The history of this book raises a question I have never encountered before in reviewing books: who did the research for it? In 2009, Butler Books of Louisville, Kentucky published Lawrence M. Crutcher's The Keats Family....
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EMILY A. BERNHARD JACKSON
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BYRON'S PHILOSOPHY OF KNOWLEDGE: CERTAIN IN UNCERTAINTY
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) ix + 229 pp.
Reviewed by Halina A. Adams
on 2012-01-13.
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"Byron as a philosopher and critic is sadly deficient, oftentimes puerile. But in fact he rarely reflects; he is more often a child because he fails to reflect at all. Predominance of intellect does not necessarily imply true wisdom; for in reality an impulsive, restless activity of mind...
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