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1939-2024

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Michael R. Paradiso-Michau, ed. CREOLIZING FRANKENSTEIN (Rowman and Littlefield, 2025) x + 403 pp. Reviewed by Kir Kuiken on 2024-08-30 Post-Colonial Studies
Creolizing Frankenstein is part of a series published in partnership with the Caribbean Philosophical Association that revisits political theorists and other canonical texts through the lens of "creolization. Click here to read the full review.

Arden Hegele ROMANTIC AUTOPSY: LITERARY FORM AND MEDICAL READING (Oxford UP, 2022) viii + 223 pp. Reviewed by Jared S. Richman on 2024-08-22
Arden Hegele's Romantic Autopsy is a thoughtful meditation on the relationship between literary interpretation and medical diagnosis. Click here to read the full review.

Freya Johnston JANE AUSTEN: EARLY AND LATE (Princeton, 2021) xiv + 271 pp. Reviewed by Taya Sazama on 2024-07-26 Victorian Literature
The story of Jane Austen is a familiar one for many scholars and critics. Click here to read the full review.

Graham Davidson THE INTELLIGIBLE ODE: INTIMATIONS OF PARADISE (Lutterworth, 2023) x + 265 pp. Reviewed by Lisa Ann Roberson on 2024-07-12 Romantic Poetry
When it first appeared at the end of William Wordsworth's Poems, in Two Volumes (1807), the Immortality Ode was called "illegible and unintelligible" by Wordsworth's nemesis Francis Jeffrey (qtd. Click here to read the full review.

Daniel Wright THE GROUNDS OF THE NOVEL (Stanford, 2024) xvi + 229 pp. Reviewed by Timothy Gao on 2024-07-02 Victorian Fiction and Ontology
Daniel Wright's fascinating new study The Grounds of the Novel argues that novel worlds have even stranger ontological foundations than ours. Click here to read the full review.

Yosefa Raz THE POETICS OF PROPHECY: MODERN AFTERLIVES OF A BIBLICAL TRADITION (Cambridge, 2024) xii + 216 pp. Reviewed by Karen Weisman on 2024-06-06 Romantic Poetry
This brilliant book about the modern afterlives of biblical prophecy has arrived precisely when we need it most: in a politically, ecologically, and even medically perilous world, the doomsayers of old (and new) seem to be claiming a new purchase on modern consciousness. Click here to read the full review.