Articles
Christian Multiculturalism and Unlearned History in Marilynne Robinson's Gilead-Christopher Douglas
Plagiarizing Sir Walter Scott: The Afterlife of Kenilworth in Victorian Quebec-Andrea Cabajsky
Rebuilding Bildung: The Middlebrow Novel of Aesthetic Education in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States-Tom Perrin
“Putrefaction Generally”: Bleak House, Victorian Psychology, and the Question of Bodily Matter-Tyson Stolte
Structures of Irony: Curiosity and Fetishism in Late Imperial London-George Micajah Phillips
“All the Talk and All the Silence”: Literary Aesthetics and Cultural Boundaries in David Treuer's Little-Padraig Kirwan
Reviews
Reading Culture through a Literary Lens-Priscilla Wald
--TOLENTINO, CYNTHIA, America's Experts: Race and the Fictions of Sociology (Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2009), pp. 200, cloth, $67.50, paper, $22.50.
--MIZRUCHI, SUSAN L., The Rise of Multicultural America: Economy and Print Culture, 1865–1915 (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2008), pp. 368, cloth, $65.00, paper, $24.95.
Native American Cosmopolitanism-Laura Doyle
--FLINT, KATE, The Transatlantic Indian, 1776–1930 (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2008), pp. 394, cloth, $42.00.
The Anti-instrumentalist Community-Berthold Schoene
--LEE, SUE-IM, A Body of Individuals: The Paradox of Community in Contemporary Fiction (Columbus: Ohio State UP, 2009), pp. 196, cloth, $44.95.
Imperial Presence of Mind-John Plotz
--BRANTLINGER, PATRICK, Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2010), pp. 208, cloth, $36.00.
What Is the Fourth Estate?-Emily Steinlight
--RUBERY, MATTHEW, The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009), pp. 248, cloth, $65.00.
The Interethnic Imagination-Christopher Douglas
--RODY, CAROLINE, The Interethnic Imagination: Roots and Passages in Contemporary Asian American Fiction (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2009), pp. 216, cloth, $65.00.
The Fate of the Novel in Contemporary Mass Culture-Joel Pfister
--BRIER, EVAN, A Novel Marketplace: Mass Culture, the Book Trade, and Postwar American Fiction (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2009), pp. 224, cloth, $49.95.
Social Death and Moral Enlightenment-Beth Connors-Manke
--SMITH, CALEB, The Prison and the American Imagination (New Haven: Yale UP, 2009), pp. 272, cloth, $40.00; paperback, $25.00.
Not Reading for the Plot-Daniel A. Novak
--GARCHA, AMANPAL, From Sketch to Novel: The Development of Victorian Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009), pp. 294, cloth, $95.00.
Altered States-Jonathan Loesberg
--MATUS, JILL L., Shock, Memory, and the Unconscious in Victorian Fiction (New York: Cambridge UP, 2009), pp. 264, cloth, $72.00.
Abstracted Interiority-Rachel Ablow
--JAFFE, AUDREY, The Affective Life of the Average Man: The Victorian Novel and the Stock-Market Graph (Ohio State UP, 2010), pp. 138, cloth, $59.95, paper, $24.95.
Not Afraid of Dirt-Cynthia Wall
--GEE, SOPHIE, Making Waste: Leftovers and the Eighteenth-Century Imagination (Princeton: Princeton UP, 2010), pp. 216, cloth, $26.95.
Modernism in Hollywood-Max Brzezinski
--CERASULO, THOMAS, Authors Out Here: Fitzgerald, West, Parker, and Schulberg in Hollywood (Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2010), pp. 216, cloth, $29.95.
Temporality and Form in Nineteenth-Century America-Edward Cahill
--PRATT, LLOYD, Archives of American Time: Literature and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2010), pp. 248, cloth, $55.00.
Reading the Grid-Philip Gould
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