Reviews, 1994

(listed alphabetically by reviewer)

Compiled by Jonathan Gross, DePaul University

Edited for the web by Kyle Grimes

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Anon. "Literary Studies." Rev. of British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire, by Nigel Leask. VQR 70 (1994): SS12.

Ansen, David. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. Newsweek, 1 Nov. 1994: 73.

Baldick, Chris. Rev. of Making Monstrous: Frankenstein, Criticism, Theory, by Fred Botting. RES 45 (1994): 434-5.

Barolsky, Paul. "Lord Byron's Persona." Rev. of Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society, by Jerome Christensen. VQR 70 (1994): 373-77.

Barolsky, Paul. Rev. of Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works Vol. VII, ed. Jerome J. McGann. VQR 70 (1994): SS10.

Berry, Francis. Rev. of Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works Vol. VII, ed. Jerome J McGann. N&Q (1994): 255.

Bhojwani, Maia. Rev. of The Great Good Place: The Country House in English Literature, by Malcom Kelsall. ArielE 25 (1994): 131-33.

Brantley, Richard E. Rev. of British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire, by Nigel Leask. JEGP 93 (1994): 592-95.

Brantlinger, Patrick. Rev. of British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire, by Nigel Leask. NCLit 48 (1994): 529-31.

Brisman, Leslie. Rev. of Romantic Potency: The Paradox of Desire, by Laura P. Claridge. NCLit 49 (1994): 249-56.

Covers works by Byron, Shelley, and Wordsworth.

Burrow, Colin. Rev. of Virgilio in Inghilterra, by Rosario Portale. MLR 89 (1994): 729-30

The 1991 text shows allusions to Vergil in the writing of John Keats, Percy Shelley and others.

Burgess, Edwina. Rev. of Silence and Sound: Theories of Poetics from the Eighteenth Century, by Richard Bradford. ES 75 (1994): 283-84.

Butler, Marilyn. Rev. of Lord Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, Vol. VII, ed. Jerome McGann. LRB 20 Oct. 1994, 33.

Butler, Marilyn. Rev. of The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse, ed. Jerome McGann. LRB 20 Oct. 1994, 33.

Carpenter, Mary Wilson. Rev. of The Readers Repentence: Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth-Century Social Discourse, by Christine L Krueger. VS 37 (1994): 609-10.

Cevasco, G.A. Rev. of Shelley and Scripture: The Interpreting Angel, by Bryan Shelley. Choice 32 (1994): 456.

Christie, William. Rev. of Rereading Byron ed. by Alice Levine and Robert N Keane. BJ 22 (1994): 100-2.

Clubbe, John. Rev. of Byron's Heroines, by Carolyn Franklin. JEGP 93 (1994): 588-90.

Cox, Phillip. Rev. of Byron: 'Don Juan' by A. Barton. N&Q 41.2 (1994): 256-9.

Cronin, Richard. Rev. of Byron's Dialectic: Skepticism and Critique of Culture, by T. A. Hoagwood. N&Q 41 (1994): 576-7.

Cronin Richard. Rev. of The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fiction of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley. N&Q 49 (1994): 251-2.

Cronin, Richard. Rev. of The Return of the Visible in British Romanticism, by W. H. Galperin. N&Q 41 (1994): 399-400.

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Dabundo, Laura Susan. Rev. of Shelley and Scripture: The Interpreting Angel by Bryan Shelley. WC (1994): 245-46.

Dawson, P.M.S. Rev. of Shelleyan Eros: The Rhetoric of Romantic Love, by William A. Ulmer. RES 45 (1994): 265-66.

Denby, David. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. New Yorker 14 Nov. 1994: 76.

Dickey, Laurence. Rev. of Impossible Individuality: Romanticism, Revolution, and the Orgins of Modern Selfhood, 1787-1802, by Gerald Izenberg N. JMH 66 (1994): 774-77.

Elfenbein, Andrew. Rev. of The Reader's Repentance: Women Preachers, Women Writers, and Nineteenth Century Social Discourse, by Christine Krueger. WC 25 (1994): 243-44.

Evans, Arthur B. Rev. of Science Fiction before 1900: Imagination Discovers Technology, by Paul K. Alkon. SFS 21 (1994): 418-20.

Review of a book which focuses on the key works in the early evolution of science fiction, especially Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Everest, Kelvin. Rev. of Shelley's Italian Experience, by Alan M. Weinberg. BJ 22 (1994): 110-11.

Fischer, Michael. Rev. of Beyond Romanticism: New Approach to Texts and Contexts, 1780-1832, ed. Stephen Copeley and John Whale. SIR 33 (1994).

Review of a book which explores writings left out of the Romantic Canon. This book contains writings by both Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.

Fischer, Michael. Rev. of Reviewing Romanticism, ed. Philip W. Martin and Robin Jarvis. SIR 33 (1994): 309-13.

Freibert, Lucy M. Rev. of A New Species: Gender and Science in Science Fiction, by Robin Roberts. TSWL 13 (1994): 383-5.

Roberts' book provides significant analysis of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as the origin of what the author considers a new species: feminist science fiction.

Fulford, Tim. Rev. of Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism, by Greg Kucich. MLR 89.2 (1994): 461-62.

Fuller, Graham. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. Interview (Nov. 1994), 92-5.

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Gilmartin, Kevin. Rev. of British Romantic Writers and the East: Anxieties of Empire, by Nigel Leask. AS 53 (1994): 511-12.

Review of a book that contains essays on how Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Thomas de Quincey reconstruct "the East".

Grabo, Norman S. Rev. of The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fiction of Godwin, Brockden Brown, Mary Shelley, by Pamela Clemit. NCL 49 (1994): 245-47.

Grimes, Kyle. Rev. of Shelley's Goddess Maternity, Language, Subectivity by Barbara Charlesworth Gelpi. JEGP 93 (1994): 595-97.

Grogan, Claire. Rev. of Romanticism and Gender, by Anne K. Mellor. Ariel 25 (1994): 1714.

Mellor points out that half of the literature published in England between 1780 and 1830 was by female authors.

Haller, Steven J. "Guide to Records" Rev. of Chadwick's Symphony 3; Barber's Vanessa (excerpts); Music for a Scene from Shelley; Medea's Meditation and Dance of Vengeance, by the Detroit Symphony under Neeme Jarvi. American Record Guide Nov. 1994; 91-92.

Hanley, Keith. Rev. of The Return of the Visible in English Romanticism, by William Galperin. BJ 22 (1994): 112-13.

Harrison, John F.C. Rev. of British History 1815-1906, by Norman McCord. VS 37 (1994): 329-31.

Heffernan, James A.W. Rev. of The Return of the Visible in English Romanticism, by William Galperin. WC 25 (1994): 202-5.

Hearty, Kitty Bowe. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. Premiere Sep. 1994: 94-5.

Heinzelman, Kurt. Rev. of Keats, Shelley and Romantic Spensersianism, by Greg Kucich. WC 25.4 (1994): 251-53.

Hill, Alan G. Rev. of Lord Byron: The Complete Miscellaneous Prose by Andrew Nicholson. RES 45 (1994): 433-34.

Immel, Andrea. Rev. of Mistress of Our Tears: A Literary and Bibliographical Study of Barbara Hofland, by Dennis Butts. The Library, 16 (1994): 249-250.

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James, Caryn. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. New York Times 13 Nov. 1994, late ed.: 1+ (Sec 2).

Jarvis, Shawn C. Rev. of Fairy Tale Romances: The Grimms, Basile and Perrault, by James McGlathery. JEGP 93 (1994): 302-6.

Johnson, Brian D. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. Maclean's 14 (Nov. 1994), 112.

Johnson, Mary Susan. Rev. of Walking North with Keats, by Kyros Walker. SHR (1994): 1932-93.

This 1992 book recalls a 44-day hike through England, Scotland and Ireland by Keats and Charles Brown in 1818. Includes poetry, biography and photographs.

Johnston, Kenneth R. Rev. of The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, ed. Stuart Curran. SIR 33 (1994): 641-52.

Jordan, Elaine. Rev. of Gothic Revisions; Writing Women as Readers, by Susan Wolstenholme. JAS 28 (1994): 123-5.

A connection is made between British and American female writers. Wolstonehome describes the contrast in status of romance and realism, as literary genres.

Joyce, Alice. Rev. of Women of Words: A Personal Introduction to Thirty-Five Important Writers, by Janet Bukovinsky. Booklist 15 (Nov. 1994), 571.

Kauffmann, Stanley. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. NR 28 (Nov. 1994), 56-7.

Kermode, Frank. Rev. of The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages, by Harold Bloom. LRB (Dec 22, 1994), 8-9.

Lamb, John B. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Early Novels: "This Child of Imagination and Misery", by Jane Blumberg. NCLit 49 (1994): 110.

Lane, Anthony. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankentstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. The NewYorker 14 Nov. 1994: 141-3.

Lindenberger, Herbert. Rev. of Byron's Historical Dramas by Richard Lansdown. CLIO 23 (1994): 295-97.

Lipman, Amanda. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. S&S (1994): 51-2.

Lippincott, Louise W. Rev. of Painting and the Politics of Culture: New Essays on British Art, 1700-1850. ed. John Barrell. Huntington Library Quarterly 57 (1994): 79-86.

Reviews a book of essays that contain Hazlitt's theory on art.

Lurie, Rod. Rev. of Interview with the Vampire, dir. Neil Jordan. Los Angeles Dec. 1994: 168-70.

A fictional interview in which Anne Rice and Mary Shelley vent their hostility over having their works adapted by Hollywood.

Lobo, Luiza. Rev. of Illusion and the Drama: Critical Theory of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era, by Fredrick Burwick. CRCL (1994): 742-44.

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Mackerness, E.D. Rev. of The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse, ed. Jerome McGann. N&Q 41 (1994): 398-99.

Mahoney, John L. Rev. of A Mind that Feeds upon Infinity: The Deep Self in EnglishRomantic Poetry, by Fairleigh Dickinson. SIR 33 (1994): 169-72.

Makowski, Marilyn. Rev. of Nonfiction--Women Who Write: Volume II, by Lucinda Irwin Smith. School Library Journal 40 (1994): 129.

Martin, Philip. Rev. of Influence and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century English Poetry, ed. by Kim G Blank and Margot K Louis. WC 25 (1994): 239-40.

Maslin, Janet. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. New York Times 4 Nov. 1994, late ed.: C1.

Mellor, Anne. Rev. of Revolutionary Feminism: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstoncraft by Gary Kelly. BIQ 27 (1993/1994), 78-79.

Minor, M. Rev. of Imageless Truths: Shelley's Poetic Fiction, by Karen A. Weisman. Choice 32 (1994): 285.

Mulcahy, K.P. Rev. of Frankenstein: Mary Shelley's Wedding Guest, by Mary Lowe-Evans. Choice 32 (1994): 781.

Mulcahy, K.P. Rev. of The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein, ed. Audrey A. Fisch, Anne K. Mellor, and Esther H. Schor. Choice Mar. 1994: 1128-1130.

Mullan, John. Rev. of Bloody Poetry, by Howard Brenton. The Nightingale Company. Union Chapel, Islington. The Times Literary Supplement 4758 (1994): 21.

Nangle, John. Rev. of More Things Than Are Dreamt Of: Masterpieces of Supernatural Horror-From Mary Shelley to Stephen King in Literature and Film, by Alain Silver and James Ursini. Films in Review Nov. 1994: 71.

Neilson, Heather. Rev. of Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, by Emily W. Sunstein, Clair Clairmont and the Shelleys: 1798-1879, by Robert Gittings and Jo Manton, and Frankenstein: Mary Shelley (Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism), ed. Johanna M. Smith. RES 45 (1994): 436-8.

Novak, Ralph. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. People Weekly 7 Nov. 1994: 19.

O'Neill, Michael. Rev. of Keats, Shelley, and Romantic Spenserianism, by Greg Kucich. RES 45 (1994): 583-84.

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Prest, John. Rev. of Bentham, Byron, and Greece: Constitutionalism, Nationalism and Early Liberal Political Thought, by F. Rosen. HJ 37 (1994): 705-08.

Quinn, Mary A. Rev. of The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume I by E.B. Murray. WC 25 (1994): 253-56.

Redford, Bruce. Rev. of Venice Desired (Writing the City), by Tony Tanner. MP 92 (1994): 257-61.

Reiman Donald. Rev. of The Return of the Visible in English Romanticism, by William Galperin. NCL 49 (1994): 247-49.

Ring, Jennifer. Rev. of A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft, by Virginia Sapiro. Journal of Politics 56 (1994): 543-5.

Roe, Nicholas. Rev. of Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society by Jerome Christensen. BJ 22 (1994): 97-99.

Rogers, Michael. "Classic Returns." Rev. of The Essential Frankenstein: The DefinitiveEdition of Mary Shelley's Classic Novel, ed. Leonard Wolf. LJ Jan. 1994: 172.

Rogers, Michael. "Classic Returns." Rev. of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, afterword by Howard Bloom, Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, illustrations by Barry Moser, afterword by Joyce Carol Oates, and The Last Man, by Mary Shelley. LJ 15 Nov. 1994: 93.

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Saldivar, Toni. Rev. of Shelley's Goddess: Maternity, Language, Subjectivity, by Barbara C. Gelpi. SHR 28 (1994): 190-92.

Schickel, Richard. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. Time 7 Nov. 1994: 73.

Scrivener, Michael. Part of a Composite Review of Radical Sensibility: Literature and Ideas in the 1790s, by Chris Jones. WC 25 (1994): 215-18.

Shullenberger, William. Rev. of The Other Mary Shelley: Beyond Frankenstein, by Audrey A. Fisch. C&L 43 (1994): 241-45.

Smith K.E. Rev. of Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches to Texts and Contexts, 1780-1832, ed. by Stephen Copley and John Whale. BJECS 17 (1994): 226-27.

Stoneman, Patsy. Rev. of The Mary Shelley Reader, Containing Frankenstein, Mathilda, Tales and Stories, Essays and Reviews, and Letters. RES 45 (1994): 118-19.

Storey, Mark. Rev. of Byron, the Bible, and Religion: Essays from the Twelfth International Byron Seminar, by Wolf Z. Hirst. RES 45. 180 (1994): 581-83.

Sutton, Mark Keith. Rev. of Walking Literature, and English Culture: The Orgins and Use of Peripatetic in the Nineteenth Century, by Anne D. Wallace. NCL 49 (1994): 377-80.

Swann, Karen. Rev. of. Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society. MLQ 55 (1994): 225-29.

Tenger, Zeynep and Paul Trolander. Rev. of Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright, by Mark Rose. MLQ 55 (1994): 465-67.

Tennyson, G. B., and Thomas Wortham. Rev. of Byron's Dialectic: Skepticism and the Critique of Culture, by Terence Allen Hoagwood. NCL 48 (1994): 563.

Thomas, Peter D. G. Rev. of George III and Satirists from Hogarth to Byron, by Vincent Carretta. The English Historical Review. 109.431 (1994): 469-71.

Thorndike, J. Rev. of The Short Oxford History of English Literature, by Andrew Sanders. LJ (June 1 1994), 107.

Travers, Peter. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. Rolling Stone 1 Dec. 1994, 131-2.

Trensky, Paul I. Rev. of Prvni Ceske Preklady Byronovy Poezie, by Bohuslav Manek. Slavik Review 53 (1994): 1129-30.

Early translations of Byron into Czech, supplemented by details on 19^th century Bohemia.

Trott, Nicola. Rev. of Romantic Androgyny: the Women Within, by Diane Long Hoeveler. RES (Feb.1994): 114-15.

Hoeveler's book examines the "androgynous impulse in male Romanticism--the mother, the sister, the beloved, the female fatale, and the muse," as applied to the works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.

Tucker, Herbert F. Rev. of Institutionalizing English Literature: The Culture and Politics of Literary Study, 1750-1900, by Frankilin E. Court. VS 37 (1994): 331-33.

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Wang, Orrin N.C. Rev. of Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society, by Jerome Christensen. SIR 33 (1994): 301-09.

Wang, Orrin N.C. Rev. of Poetry as an Occupation and an Art in Britian, 1760-1830, by Peter T Murphy, WC (1994): 266-68.

Wang, Orrin N.C. Rev. of The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse, ed. by Jerome McGann. CQ 23 (1994): 171-179.

White, R.S. Rev. of Paradise Lost and the Romantic Reader, by Lucy Newlyn. N&Q 41 (1994): 400-01.

Milton's text seen as sufficiently ambivalent to inspire those of opposed ideologies, such as Shelley and Burke.

Witchel, Alex. Rev. of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, dir. Kenneth Branagh. New York Times 9 Nov. 1994, late ed.: C1.

Wolfson, Susan J. Rev. of Romantic Corresponding; Women, Politics, and the Fiction of Letters. TSWL 13 (1994): 387-407.

The book reviewed focuses on Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Favret describes the shift from sentimental letters to political letters and their impact on literary texts.