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EMILY A. BERNHARD JACKSON
THE DEVELOPMENT OF BYRON'S PHILOSOPHY OF KNOWLEDGE: CERTAIN IN UNCERTAINTY
Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) ix + 229 pp.
Reviewed by Halina A. Adams
on 2012-01-18.
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"Byron as a philosopher and critic is sadly deficient, oftentimes puerile. But in fact he rarely reflects; he is more often a child because he fails to reflect at all. Predominance of intellect does not necessarily imply true wisdom; for in reality an impulsive, restless activity of mind...
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Denise Gigante
THE KEATS BROTHERS: THE LIFE OF JOHN AND GEORGE
(Harvard University Press, 2011) xi + 499 pp.
Reviewed by R. S. White
on 2012-01-18.
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The history of this book raises a question I have never encountered before in reviewing books: who did the research for it? In 2009, Butler Books of Louisville, Kentucky published Lawrence M. Crutcher's The Keats Family....
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Larry H. Peer
ROMANTICISM AND THE OBJECT
(Palgrave Macmillan 2009) 223 pp.
Reviewed by G. Todd Davis
on 2012-01-17.
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According to its introduction, this book shows how the Romantics used a new paradigm of language to make material objects express not only ideas but feelings. In his rich, erudite, and illuminating introductory essay, Peer explains how "image-making from the objects of real experience is a key to Romantic...
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Jeffrey S. Cramer, ed.
THE QUOTABLE THOREAU
(Princeton, 2011) xlvi + 492 pp.
Reviewed by Rochelle Johnson
on 2012-01-17.
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"My work is writing," wrote Henry David Thoreau in October of 1856. This thick volume affirms that claim, which may have been offered in self-assurance, or perhaps even in hope. With more than two thousand quotations on more than one hundred and fifty topics, The Quotable Thoreau offers...
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Carolyn W. De La L. Oulton, Brenda Ayres, Karen Yuen and Alexandra Warwick, eds.
NEW WOMAN FICTION, 1881-1899, Part I, Volumes 1-3
(Pickering and Chatto, 2010) xc + 1004 pp.
Reviewed by Catherine Pope
on 2011-12-23.
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In her best-selling novel The Sorrows of Satan (1895), Marie Corelli asked "do you think a girl can read the books that are now freely published...and yet remain an innocent?" In the introduction to this edition of New Woman Fiction, Carolyn Oulton argues that New Woman writing is distinguished...
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