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Graham Davidson
THE INTELLIGIBLE ODE: INTIMATIONS OF PARADISE
(Lutterworth, 2023) x + 265 pp.
Reviewed by Lisa Ann Roberson on 2027-07-12
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.
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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.
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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.
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Patrick O'Malley
THE IRISH AND THE IMAGINATION OF RACE: WHITE SUPREMACY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
(University of Virginia, 2023) x + 311 pp.
Reviewed by Jacob Romanow on 2024-06-04
Irish Literature
The idea that "the Irish became white" in the nineteenth century has set the terms for most work on Irish racialization since Noel Ignatiev presented that memorable formulation in 1995.
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Jerome Mcgann
BYRON AND THE POETICS OF ADVERSITY
(Cambridge UP, 2023) xi + 214 pp.
Reviewed by Jonathan Sachs on 2024-02-09
The idea that "the Irish became white" in the nineteenth century has set the terms for most work on Irish racialization since Noel Ignatiev presented that memorable formulation in 1995.
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Caleb Smith
THOREAU'S AXE: DISTRACTION AND DISCIPLINE IN AMERICAN CULTURE
(Princeton, 2023) ix + 240 pp
Reviewed by Morgan Shipley on 2023-12-04
Inundated with an almost endless stream of new media, many of us may now feel almost overwhelmingly distracted by what we see on our various screens, from television to laptops and smartphones.
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