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William P. Macneil
NOVEL JUDGMENTS: LEGAL THEORY AS FICTION
(Routledge, 2012) 208 pp.
Reviewed by Jane Lee
on 2012-05-17.
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According to William P. MacNeil, studies in law and literature need to pay more attention to the law. While saluting the work done by prominent law-and-literature scholars such as Meredith McGill, Lisa Rodensky, Brook Thomas, and Alexander Welsh, MacNeil finds their interests primarily socio-legal,...
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Alan Vardy
Constructing Coleridge
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) viii + 196 pp.
Reviewed by Anthony John Harding
on 2012-05-17.
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The Coleridge canon has always been somewhat amorphous, and Coleridge's authorial identity is likewise elusive and multi-faceted. In examining the successive Coleridges offered to the reading public by Coleridge himself during his lifetime and then by the family editors, Alan Vardy explains in...
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Stephen Gill
WORDSWORTH'S REVISITINGS
(Oxford, 2011), xiii + 265 pages
Reviewed by Lawrence Poston
on 2012-05-17.
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Though Stephen Gill is the preeminent Wordsworth biographer of his generation (William Wordsworth: A Life, Oxford, 1989), he has published on British literature of the nineteenth century generally and more recently Wordsworth and the Victorians (Oxford, 1998), which filled a longstanding...
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Stuart Andrews
ROBERT SOUTHEY: HISTORY, POLITICS, RELIGION
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) xix + 250 pp.
Reviewed by David Latané
on 2012-04-02.
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It was, in one reading of Shelley's "England in 1819," "time's worst statute," and while readers now require a footnote to suggest that Shelley was signaling a position on the rights of Catholics, the debate at the time was inescapable. Bubbling below the surface of the texts we now celebrate as Romantic...
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Albert Von Frank and Thomas Wortham, eds.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON COLLECTED WORKS VOLUME IX: POEMS
(Harvard, 2011) cxlviii + 705 pp.
Reviewed by Todd Richardson
on 2012-03-07.
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"It has been settled that I cannot write poetry." So declared Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1878 to Franklin Benjamin Sanborn, a second-generation Transcendentalist who had asked the great American thinker to provide some verse to accompany a magazine sketch he was writing about him. (Sanborn, Ralph Waldo...
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