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Dennis Perry and Carl Sederholm
POE, "THE HOUSE OF USHER," AND THE AMERICAN GOTHIC
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2009)
Reviewed by Jerrold Hogle
on 2010-08-10.
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Sometimes fairly simple and straightforward analyses of literature can be good. This study clearly and concisely shows how Edgar Allan Poes great 1839 tale "The Fall of the House of Usher" for many his most completely "Gothic" text -- influences and helps drive, without ever being merely imitated...
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Sue Walsh
KIPLING'S CHILDREN'S LITERATURE-LANGUAGE, IDENTITY, AND CONSTRUCTIONS OF CHILDHOOD
Ashgate, May 2010
Reviewed by Marah Gubar
on 2010-08-10.
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What's the matter with Rudyard Kipling? England's first (and youngest) winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature was phenomenally popular during his own lifetime. Yet by the time he died in 1936 "many had lost interest in him and many others had been repelled,"as an obituary in the Times Literary Supplement...
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Anthony Harrison
THE CULTURAL PRODUCTION OF MATTHEW ARNOLD
(Ohio, 2009)
Reviewed by Lawrence Poston
on 2010-07-20.
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Untitled Document
In this small but ambitious volume, Antony Harrison has drawn on several earlier publications to explain how Matthew Arnold refashioned or culturally produced himself as an anti-ideological ideologue, a Victorian arbiter...
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Katherine Isobel Baxter
JOSEPH CONRAD AND THE SWAN SONG OF ROMANCE
(Ashgate, January 2010)
Reviewed by Linda Dryden
on 2010-07-16.
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Joseph Conrad's novel The Rescue had an unusually long gestation period. Begun in the 1890s, it was abandoned by the author for around 25 years before finally being published in 1920 as the third of a retrospective trilogy featuring Captain Lingard. Since Conrad called it the "swan song of romance,"...
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Richard Fantina
VICTORIAN SENSATIONAL FICTION
(Palgrave Macmillan, January 2010)
Reviewed by Tara MacDonald
on 2010-07-16.
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Despite the prominence of Wilkie Collins, sensational fiction might now be regarded as a genre dominated by women writers. With the rise of cultural studies and the continued recovery of female authors, the sensational fiction of writers such as Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, Florence Marryat, Ouida, and Ellen Wood has received renewed attention in the last decade....
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