Review 19: An Online Review of New Books on English and American Literature of the 19th Century
 

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Bill Hardwig
UPON PROVINCIALISM: SOUTHERN LITERATURE AND NATIONAL PERIODICAL CULTURE, 1870-1900
(Virginia, April 2013)
Reviewed by Nina Baym on 2013-05-18.

Bill Hardwig advances a double argument in this book: first, that after the Civil War, regional literatures were defined for the reading public through periodical publications rather than novels or newspapers, and second,...
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Lawrence M. Crutcher
GEORGE KEATS OF KENTUCKY: A LIFE
(Kentucky, 2012) xv + 342 pp. 91 plates, mainly in color.
Reviewed by R. S. White on 2013-05-11.

Following the publication of three hefty books in four years, totaling in all some 1,200 pages, we have no excuse now for not knowing everything there is to be known about George Keats. First, Lawrence M. Crutcher provided...
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Daniel Brown
THE POETRY OF VICTORIAN SCIENTISTS
(Cambridge, 2013) xi + 310 pp.
Reviewed by John Holmes on 2013-05-10.

Science mattered to Victorian poets. The most famous poem of the most famous Victorian poet, Alfred Tennyson's In Memoriam, pivots on the question of extinction. It reaches its nadir as Tennyson faces fossil dragons...
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J. C. C. Mays
COLERIDGE'S EXPERIMENTAL POETICS
(Palgrave, 2013)
Reviewed by William Ulmer on 2013-05-10.

J. C. C. Mays is the editor of the Poetical Works in the Bollingen Collected Coleridge and surely the greatest living authority on Coleridge's poetry. So the publication of this book signifies an important...
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Alfred Bendixen, ed.
A COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN NOVEL
(Blackwell, 2012) lxx + 633 pp.
Reviewed by Brian Yothers on 2013-04-22.

America and the novel seem to be made for each other. For better or worse, the impulses we associate with the novel mirror the nation's middle-class culture, democracy, capitalism, and a complex array of other attributes:...
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