Reviews, 1996

(listed alphabetically by reviewer)

Compiled by Jonathan Gross, DePaul University

Edited for the web by Kyle Grimes


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Ades, John I. Rev. of Romantic Presences: Living from the Age of Wordsworth and Shelley, by Jeffrey C. Robinson. WC, 27.4 (Fall 1996), 190-91.

Allott, Miriam. Rev. of Keats and History, ed. Nicholas Roe. N&Q, 43.2 (June 1996), 234-35.

Altner, Patricia. Rev. of Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron, by Tom Holland. LJ, 121.1 (Jan. 1996), 142.

Anon. Rev. of Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend, by James Soderholm. TLS (Dec. 6, 1996), 24.

Axcelson, John. Rev. of Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society, by Jerome Christensen. ERR, 6.2 (Winter 1996), 281-88.

Bate, Jonathan. Rev. of Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World, by Timothy Morton. KSJ, 45 (1996), 195-97.

Beatty, Bernard. Rev. of Byron's Don Juan, by Anne Barton; Byron's Heroines, by Caroline Franklin; Don Juan, ed. Nigel Wood. RES, 47.185 (1996), 101-3.

Behr, K. Rev. of "My Hideous Progeny": Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship, by Katherine C. Hill-Miller. N&Q, 43.3 (1996), 363-64.

Behrendt, Stephen C. Rev. of Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre, by David Duff. KSJ, 45 (1996), 197-99.

Behrendt, Stephen C. Rev. of Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World, by Timothy Morton. JEGP, 95 (Oct. 1996), 565-67.

Bemrose, John. Rev. of Byron: The Flawed Angel, by Phyllis Grosskurth. Maclean's (Apr. 28, 1997), 61.

Berry, Francis. Rev. of Byron and the Victorians, by Andrew Elfenbein. N&Q, 43.2 (June 1996), 235-36.

Binfield, K. Rev. of Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World, by Timothy Morton. NCP, 24.1 (1997), 152-57.

Blank, G. Kim. Rev. of Imageless Truths: Shelley's Poetic Fictions, by Karen A. Weisman. UTQ, 65 (1995-96), 196-98.

Bode, Christopher. Rev. of The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 1, ed. E. B. Murray. Zeitschrift Fur Anglistik und Amerikanstik, 44.4 (1996), 375-78.

Bonnecuse, D. Rev. of Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre, by David Duff. EA, 49.3 (1996), 346-47.

Botting, Fred. Rev. of Literature, Education and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832, by Alan Richardson. KSR, 10 (Spring 1996), 99-104.

Botting, Fred. Rev. of Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance, and Surveillance, 1790-1820, by David Worrall; Unbuilding Jerusalem: Apocalypse and Romantic Representation, by Steven Goldsmith; Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society, by Jerome Christensen. NCC, 19.3 (1996), 327-31.

Britton, Joel J. Rev. of Location Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, 2 vols., ed. David C. Sutton. NCP, 23.2 (Fall 1996), 140-42.

Brophy, Michael. Rev. of La petite phrase et la longue phrase, by Yves Bonnefoy. The French Review, 70 (Dec. 1996), 339-41.

Burroughs, Catherine. Rev. of Romantic Ideology Unmasked: The Mentally Constructed Tyrannies in Dramas of William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Shelley, and Joanna Baillie, by Marjean D. Purinton. KSJ, 45 (1996), 206-8.

Carlson, Julie. Rev. of Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885, by Elaine Hadley; The Theatres of War: Performance, Politics, and Society, 1793-1815, by Gillian Russell; The Birth of Romantic Radicalism: War, Popular Politics and English Radical Reformism, 1800-1815, by W. Peter Spence. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 222-23.

Carretta, Vincent. Rev. of Radical Satire and Print Culture, 1790-1822, by Marcus Wood; Shelley's Satire: Violence, Exhortation, and Authority, by Steven E. Jones. MP, 94.2 (1996), 246-52.

Castle, T. Rev. of Byron: The Flawed Angel, by Phyllis Grosskurth. NYTBR (Apr. 13, 1997), 13.

Clemit, Pamela. Rev. of The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, vol. 1, ed. E. B. Murray. N&Q, 43.2 (June 1996), 233-34.

Costello, Julie. Rev. of At the Limits of Romanticism, ed. Mary A. Favret and Nicola J. Watson. NCC, 19.4 (1996), 457-60.

Curran, Stuart. Rev. of The Frankenstein Notebooks: A Facsimile Edition of Mary Shelley's Manuscript Novel, 1816-17, ed. Charles E. Robinson. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 210-12.

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Donald, Adrienne. Rev. of Dialogue and Literature: Apostrophe, Auditors, and the Collapse of Romantic Discourse, by Michael S. Macovski. KSJ, 45 (1996), 220-22.

Dungate, Rod. Rev. of "Trust Byron: Rod Dungate at the Other Place (RSC)." [Written and Performed by George Costigan]. Plays and Players (July 1996), 42.

Elfenbein, Andrew. Rev. of The Romantic Movement, by Maurice Cranston. ERR, 7.1 (Summer 1996), 107-10.

Erkelenz, Michael. Rev. of Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre, by David Duff. RES, 47 (1996), 276-77.

Esterhammer, Angela. Rev. of Leaves of Mourning: Hölderlin's Late Work--With an Essay on Keats and Melancholy, by Anselm Haverkamp, trans. Vernon Chadwick. WC, 27.4 (1996), 232-35.

Esterhammer, Angela. Rev. of The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism, by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy, trans. Philip Barnard and Cheryl Lester; The Experience of the Foreign: Culture and Translation in Romantic Germany, by Antoine Berman, trans. S. Heyvaert; and Leaves of Mourning: Hölderlin's Late Work--With an Essay on Keats and Melancholy, by Anselm Haverkamp, trans. Vernon Chadwick. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 232-35.

Everest, Kelvin. Rev. of Shelley: Opere, ed. Francesco Rognoni. TLS, 4892 (Jan. 3, 1997), 26.

Annotations constitute "the most careful detailed commentary of this kind...currently available, in any language, English included."

Everest, Kelvin. Rev. of Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World, by Timothy Morton. MLR, 91 (1996), 979-80.

Everest, Kelvin. Rev. of Shelley's Satire: Violence, Exhortation, and Authority, by Steven E. Jones. MLR, 91 (1996), 979-80.

Finch, G. Rev. of Keats and History, by Nicholas Roe. English, 45.182 (1996), 170-75.

Fischer, Michael. Rev. of A Defense of Poetry: Reflections on the Occasion of Writing, by Paul H. Fry; Fantastic Modernity: Dialectical Readings in Romanticism and Theory, by Orrin N. C. Wang. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 235-37.

Flay, M. J. Rev. of Byron and the Victorians, by Andrew Elfenbein. ES, 77.6 (1996), 598-99.

Fulford, Tim. Rev. of The Circle of Our Vision: Dante's Presence in English Romantic Poetry, by Ralph Pite. MLQ, 57.1 (Mar. 1996), 112-14.

Fruman, Norman. Rev. of Byron: Lectures du "Don Juan," ed. Christian La Cassagnère. EA, 50.1 (Jan.-Mar. 1997), 101-102.

Fruman notes that this volume includes essays by Marie Jeane Ortemann on the figuration of the possible and Byron's authorial voice; John Donovan's "Don Juan Sails to Constantinople"; and Malcolm Kelsall's "Politics and Sexual Politics." Marta Dvorak discusses the role of food and digestion in the structure of the poem; Marc Porée explores Byron's absorption with the "body's appetites," arguing that the body functions as an organizing principle of the text. La Cassagnère's closing essay proposes that Byron's statement, "I've got new mythological machinery," is the key to the epic. Makes use of Freud, Lacan, New Criticism, and Deconstruction.

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Galperin, William. Rev. of Reflections of Revolution: Images of Romanticism, ed. Alison Yarrington and Kelvin Everest. NCC, 20.1 (1997), 119-23.

Gee, Christina. Rev. of The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis, and the Visual Arts, by Grant F. Scott. ERR, 6.2 (Winter 1996), 277-80.

Gilroy, Amanda. Rev. of Women Travel Writers and the Language of Aesthetics, 1716-1818, by Elizabeth A. Bohls; Letters of a Solitary Wanderer 1800, by Charlotte Smith; Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility, by Syndy McMillen Conger. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 216-19.

Gleckner, Robert F. Rev. of "What Comes Uppermost": Byron's Letters and Journals, ed. Leslie Marchand; Fantasy, Forgery, and the Byron Legend, by James Soderholm; Byron and the Victorians, by Andrew Elfenbein. WC, 27.4 (Fall 1996), 201.

Gonda, Caroline. Rev. of "My Hideous Progeny": Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship, by Katherine C. Hill-Miller. The Cambridge Quarterly, 25.2 (1996), 205-8.

Gonda, Caroline. Rev. of "My Hideous Progeny": Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship, by Katherine C. Hill-Miller. SIR, 35.2 (1996), 342.

Goodwin, James. Rev. of Melodramatic Tactics: Theatricalized Dissent in the English Marketplace, 1800-1885, by Elaine Hadley. NCL, 51.3 (December 1996), 407-10.

Hall, Spencer. Rev. of Dialogue and Literature: Apostrophe, Auditors, and the Collapse of Romantic Discourse, by Michael S. Macovski. NCP, 23.1 (Spring 1996), 113-15.

Harrison, Gary. Rev. of The Romantic Virtuoso, by Morse Peckham. NCP, 23.2 (Fall 1996), 111-15.

Harshbarger, Scott B. Rev. of Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice, 1780-1832, by Alan Richardson. KSJ, 45 (1996), 218-20.

Heinzelman, Kurt. Rev. of Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society, by Jerome Christensen. MP, 94.1 (Aug. 1996), 111-14.

Hobsbaum, Philip. Rev. of Keats and History, ed. Nicholas Roe. KSR, 10 (Spring 1996), 111-16.

Hoeveler, Diane Long. Rev. of Equivocal Beings: Politics, Gender and Sentimentality in the 1790s--Wollstonecraft, Radcliffe, Burney and Austen, by Claudia Johnson; Sexual Power in British Romantic Poetry, by Daniel P. Watkins. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 219-21.

Hogle, Jerrold. Rev. of Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction, by Steven Bruhm. KSJ, 45 (1996), 216-18.

Höhne, H. Rev. of Byron's Heroines, by Caroline Franklin. Anglia Zeitschrift Für Englische Philologie, 113.4 (1995), 527-29.

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Jarvis, Simon. Rev. of Byron: The Flawed Angel, by Phyllis Grosskurth; Lives of the Great Romantics, vol. 2, Byron, ed. Chris Hart. TLS, 4905 (Apr. 4, 1997), 20-21.

Jones, Chris. Rev. of Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World, by Timothy Morton. N&Q, 43.1 (Mar. 1996), 101-2.

Jones, Steven E. Rev. of The Last of the Race: The Growth of a Myth from Milton to Darwin, by Fiona J. Stafford. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 209-10.

Jump, H. D. Rev. of Selected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, ed. Betty. T. Bennett. RES, 48.189 (1997), 122-23.

Kandl, John. Rev. of Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination, by Frederick Burwick; The Madhouse of Language: Writing and Reading Madness in the Eighteenth Century, by Allan Ingram; Love's Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 1800-1865, by Helen Small. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 227-28

Keach, William. Rev. of The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts, vol. 16, The Hellas Notebook Bodleian Ms. Shelley, Adds E.7, ed. Donald H. Reiman and Michael J. Neth; The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts, vol. 17, Drafts for Laon and Cythna, Cantos V-XII, Bodleian Ms. Shelley Adds. E.10 , ed. Michael O'Neill; The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts, vol. 20, The Defense of Poetry, Fair Copies: Bodleian Mss. Shelley 3-6 and Adds. D.8, ed. Michael O'Neill. KSJ, 45 (1996), 199-201.

Keach, William. Rev. of Romance and Revolution: Shelley and the Politics of a Genre, by David Duff. MP, 94.3 (1997), 402-6.

Kipperman, Mark. Rev. of Imageless Truths: Shelley's Poetic Fictions, by Karen A. Weisman; Shelley's Satire: Violence, Exhortation, and Authority, by Steven E. Jones. Criticism, 38.1 (1996), 160-66.

Kort, Wesley A. Rev. of Shelley and Scripture: The Interpreting Angel, by Bryan Shelley. Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 64.3 (1996), 710-12.

Kroeber, Karl. Rev. of Romantic Motives: Essays on Anthropological Sensibility, ed. George W. Stocking, Jr. WC, 27.4 (1996), 239.

Kucich, John. Rev. of Figures of Conversion: 'The Jewish Question' and English National Identity, by Michael Ragussis. NCL, 51.4 (March 1997), 531-32.

La Forgue, P. Rev. of The Romantic Artifice: From Byron to Baudelaire, by Ann-Déborah Lévy-Bertherat. Revue d'Histoire Litérraire de la France, 96.5 (1996), 1040.

Larrissy, Edward. Rev. of The Politics of the Picturesque: Literature, Landscape and Aesthetics since 1770, by Stephen Copley and Peter Garside; Reading Gothic Fiction: A Bakhtinian Approach, by Jacqueline Howard. KSR, 10 (Spring 1996), 105-6.

Lessenich, R. P. Rev. of Keats, Narrative and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing, by Andrew Bennett. Anglia Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, 114.2 (1996), 290-92.

Lewis, Linda M. Rev. of The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism, by Anthony John Harding. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 207-9.

Lussier, Mark S. Rev. of Fact & Feeling: Baconian Science and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, by Jonathan Smith; Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science, by Laura Dassow Walls; Goethe's Conception of Knowledge and Science, by R. H. Stephenson. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 229-31.

Lynch, Deidre. Rev. of Women, Writing, and Revolution, 1790-1827, by Gary Kelly. NCP, 23.1 (Spring 1996), 122-27.

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Mackerness, E. D. Rev. of Romanticism, by Aidan Day; Questioning Romanticism, ed. John Beer. N&Q, 44.1 (Mar. 1997), 125-26.

Mackerness, E. D. Rev. of The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts, vol. 20, The Defense of Poetry, Fair Copies: Bodleian Mss. Shelley 3-6 and Adds. D.8, ed. Michael O'Neill. N&Q, 43.1 (Mar. 1996), 101-102.

Magnuson, Paul. Rev. of The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism, by Anthony John Harding. NCL, 51.3 (December 1996), 400-402.

Marsland, Clive. Rev. of The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis and the Visual Arts, by Grant F. Scott. KSR, 10 (Spring 1996), 107-10.

McDayter, Ghislaine. Rev. of The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold; or, The Modern Oedipus: Collected Fiction of John William Polidori, by D. L. Macdonald and Kathleen Scherf, eds. KSJ, 45 (1996), 208.

McKay, Kenneth M. Rev. of Walking, Literature, and English Culture: The Origins and Uses of Peripatetic in the Nineteenth Century, by Anne D. Wallace. UTQ, 66.2 (Spring 1997), 487-88.

McKusick, James. Rev. of Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind, by Karl Kroeber. KSJ, 45 (1996), 213-16.

Morton, Timothy. Rev. of Shelley and Scripture: The Interpreting Angel, by Bryan Shelley. RES, 47.187 (1996), 429-30.

Morton, Timothy. Rev. of The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800, by E. J. Clery; Reading Gothic Fiction: A Bakhtinian Approach, by Jacqueline Howard; Gothic Bodies: The Politics of Pain in Romantic Fiction, by Steven Bruhm; The Gothic Sublime, by Vijay Mishra; The Supernatural Sublime: The Metaphysics of Terror in Anglo-American Romanticism, by Jack F. Voller. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 224-26.

Morvan, A. Rev. of The Godwinian Novel: The Rational Fictions of Godwin, Brockden-Brown, Mary Shelley, by Pamela Clemit. EA, 49.2 (1996), 232-33.

Neth, M. J. Rev. of The Shelley-Byron Conversation, by William D. Brewer. ANQ, 9.2 (1996), 61-64.

Newey, V. Rev. of The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts, vol. 20, The Defense of Poetry, Fair Copies: Bodleian Mss. Shelley 3-6 and Adds. D.8, ed. Michael O'Neill. RES, 47.188 (1996), 609.

Traces the movements of Mary Shelley's hands in transcribing Shelley's works. Works include the "Defense of Poetry" (two versions), the poet's translation of Plato's Symposium, and the "Essay on Love."

Nicholson, Andrew. Rev. of Byron's Letters and Journals. Supplementary Volume: What Comes Uppermost, ed. Leslie Marchand. KSJ, 45 (1996), 204-6.

O'Neill, Michael. Rev. of Shelley and Scripture: The Interpreting Angel, by Bryan Shelley. RES, 47.187 (Aug. 1996), 429-30.

O'Neill, Michael. Rev. of Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World, by Timothy Morton. JEGP, 95 (1996), 565-67.

O'Neill, Michael. "The 'Sensitive Plant' (The Lyrical Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley)," South Cambridge Quarterly, 2512 (1996), 103-23.

O'Neill, Michael. Rev. of The Circle of Our Vision: Dante's Presence in English Romantic Poetry, by Ralph Pite. RES, 47.187 (1996), 598-99.

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Perkins, David. Rev. of Keats and History, ed. Nicholas Roe. WC, 27.4 (Fall 1996), 203-205.

Peterfreund, Stuart. Rev. of The Shelley-Byron Conversation, by William D. Brewer. NCC, 19.3 (1996), 340-43.

Poston, Lawrence. Rev. of A History of English Political Thought in the Nineteenth Century, by Mark Francis and John Morrow. NCP, 23.2 (Fall 1996), 94-97.

Potkay, Adam. Rev. of Things, Thoughts, Words, and Actions: The Problem of Language in Late Eighteenth-Century British Rhetorical Theory, by H. Lewis Ullman; Rhetorical Traditions and British Romantic Literature, by Don H. Bialostosky and Lawrence D. Needham. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 213-14.

Pynsent, R. B. Rev. of T. G. Masaryk, Polemical Discussions and Essays on Russian and European Literary and Intellectual History: Dostoevski, from Pushkin to Gorki, Musset, Byron, Goethe, Lenau, German, ed. Peter Demetz. SEER, 75.1 (1997), 143-46.

This volume, in German, is the first edition of the original of the third volume (written 1906-10) of Masaryk's Russia and Europe (Jena, 1903); most esays on Russian, French, German, and English literature appeared in the 1890s and 1900s. Translated into Czech between the wars, a large selection appears in English as volume 3 of The Spirit of Russia (ed. G. Gibian and R. Bass, London, 1968). Gorki and Byron are the heroes of this book, in which the author's "Protestant views inform his judgements" (Demetz).

Quinney, Laura. Rev. of The Shelley-Byron Conversation, by William D. Brewer. KSJ, 45 (1996), 202-4.

RDF. Rev. of The Frankenstein Notebooks: A Facsimile Edition of Mary Shelley's Manuscript Novel, 1816-17, ed. Charles E. Robinson. TLS, 4898 (Feb. 14, 1997), 24.

Redfield, Marc. Rev. of Intersections: Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Contemporary Theory, ed. Tilottoma Rajan and David L. Clark. ERR, 7.1 (Summer 1996), 110-14.

Reiman, Donald H. Rev. of Revision and Romantic Authorship, by Zachary Leader. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 212-13.

Roberts, Adam. Rev. of The Ideology of Imagination: Subject and Society in the Discourse of Romanticism, by Forest Pyle; The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800, by E. J. Clery. KSR, 10 (Spring 1996), 122-30.

Robinson, Daniel. Rev. of A Moment's Monument: Revisionary Poetics and the Nineteenth-Century English Sonnet, by Jennifer Ann Wagner. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 215-16.

Roe, Nicholas. Rev. of Leigh Hunt and the Poetry of Fancy, by Rodney Stenning Edgecombe. KSJ, 45 (1996), 212-13.

Rossington, Michael. Rev. of Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World, by Timothy Morton. KSR, 10 (Spring 1996), 117-21.

Ryan, Robert M. Rev. of The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis, and the Visual Arts, by Grant F. Scott. JEGP, 95 (July 1996), 456-58.

Rzepka, Charles J. Rev. of A Genealogy of the Modern Self: Thomas De Quincey and the Intoxication of Writing, by Alina Clej; Pleasures and Pains: Opium and the Orient in 19th-Century British Culture, by Barry Mulligan. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 205-7.

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Sadoff, Diane. Rev. of "My Hideous Progeny": Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship, by Katherine C. Hill-Miller. KSJ, 45 (1996), 209-11.

Schor, Esther. Rev. of The Circle of Our Vision: Dante's Presence in English Romantic Poetry, by Ralph Pite. KSJ, 45 (1996), 222-24.

Scrivener, Michael Henry. Rev. of Shelley's Satire: Violence, Exhortation, and Authority, by Steven E. Jones. SIR, 35.3 (1996), 471-73.

Sheats, Paul D. Rev. of Romantic Revisions, ed. Robert Brinkley and Keith Hanley. SIR, 35.2 (Summer 1996), 334-38.

Stabler, Jane. Rev. of Byron and the Victorians, by Andrew Elfenbein. KSR, 10 (Spring 1996), 134-35.

Stein, Atara. Rev. of Byron and the Victorians, by Andrew Elfenbein. ERR, 7.1 (Summer 1996), 101-106.

Storch, Margaret. Rev. of Imagination Transformed: The Evolution of the Female Character in Keats' Poetry, by Karla Alwes. SIR, 35.1 (1996), 169-72.

Storey, Mark. Rev. of Byron: The Complete Poetical Works, vol. 6-7, ed. Jerome McGann and B. Weller. RES, 47.186 (May 1996), 274-76.

Storey, Mark. Rev. of Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society, by Jerome Christensen. RES, 47.188 (1996), 607-8.

Sweet, N. Rev. of Byron's Heroines, by Caroline Franklin. SIR, 35.3 (1996), 467-70.

Swingle, L. J. Rev. of Keats, Narrative, and Audience: The Posthumous Life of Writing, by Andrew Bennett. JEGP, 94 (Oct. 1995), 574-76.

Tomalin, Claire. Rev. of The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley in Eight Volumes, by Nora Crook. TLS, 4887 (Nov. 29, 1996), 9.

Tucker, John L. Rev. of Romantic Influences: Contemporary-Victorian-Modern, by John Beer; Walter Pater: Lover of Strange Souls, by Denis Donoghue; Thomas Hardy in Our Time, by Robert Langbaum. WC, 27.4 (Autumn 1996), 237-39.

Turner, John. Rev. of The Book of Modern Scandal, from Byron to the Present Day, ed. Bruce Palling. TLS, 4855 (Apr. 19, 1996), 36.

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Vance, Norman. Rev. of The Birth of European Romanticism: Truth and Propaganda in Staël's "De L'Allemagne," by John Claiborne Isbell. KSR, 10 (Spring 1996), 131-34.

Vargo, L. Rev. of Imageless Truths: Shelley's Poetic Fictions, by Karen A. Weisman. English Studies in Canada, 22.3 (1996), 366-68.

Walker, Eric C. Rev. of Romantic Ecology: Wordsworth and the Environmental Tradition, by Jonathan Bate; Walking, Literature, and English Culture: The Origins and Uses of Peripatetic in the Nineteenth Century, by Anne D. Wallace. SIR, 35.1 (Spring 1996), 156-62.

Wang, Orrin N. C. Rev. of Romanticism, Nationalism, and the Revolt against Theory, by David Simpson. SIR, 35.1 (Spring 1996), 151-55.

Westerwelle, Karin. Rev. of L'Artifice romantique. De Byron á Baudelaire, by Ann-Déborah Lévy-Bertherat. Romanische Forschungen, 108.1-2 (1996), 265-67.

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Youngquist, P. Rev. of "My Hideous Progeny": Mary Shelley, William Godwin, and the Father-Daughter Relationship, by Katherine C. Hill-Miller. SIR, 35.2 (Summer 1996), 342-46.


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