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Simon Grennan, Roger Sabin, and Julian Waite MARIE DUVAL: MAVERICK VICTORIAN CARTOONIST (Manchester, 2020) x + 272 pp. Reviewed by Richard Scully on 2021-01-19
This long-awaited study of Marie Duval (1847-1890, born Isabelle Émilie de Tessier) is a remarkable achievement. Click here to read the full review.

Nicholas Mason and Tom Mole, eds. ROMANTIC PERIODICALS IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: ELEVEN CASE STUDIES FROM BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE (Edinburgh, 2020) xi + 276 pp. Reviewed by David Latané on 2021-01-15 Romantic Periodical Studies
In 2017, Tom Mole and Nicholas Mason organized the Blackwood's bicentenary conference at the University of Edinburgh, and for this collection of essays they drew on a cadre of distinguished specialists in the history of periodicals. Click here to read the full review.

Robert Morrison THE REGENCY REVOLUTION: JANE AUSTEN, NAPOLEON, LORD BYRON AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD (Atlantic / Allen & Unwin, 2019) xv + 349 pp. Reviewed by Gregory Dart on 2021-01-13
Editor's Note: This book has been published in America as The Regency Years: During Which Jane Austen Writes, Napoleon Fights, Byron Makes Love, And Britain Becomes Modern (Norton, 2019). Click here to read the full review.

John Savarese ROMANTICISM'S OTHER MINDS: POETRY, COGNITION, AND THE SCIENCE OF SOCIABILITY (Ohio State, 2020) viii + 192 pp. Reviewed by Mark J. Bruhn on 2021-01-12 Romantic Poetry and Neurological Studies
In just under 170 succinctly argued pages, John Savarese's first monograph gives a surprisingly copious account of poetry's instrumental role in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century theories of humans' socio-cognitive endowment and development. Click here to read the full review.

Judith Maltby and Alison Shell ANGLICAN WOMEN NOVELISTS: CHARLOTTE BRONTE TO P.D. JAMES (Bloomsbury, 2019) xvi+274pp Reviewed by June Sturrock on 2021-01-10 Women Writers
As novelists, the subjects of this lively and scholarly collection are strikingly diverse. Click here to read the full review.

David Sweeney Coombs READING WITH THE SENSES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND SCIENCE (Virginia, 2019) xi + 175pp. Reviewed by Kay Young on 2020-12-30
Why read a book about reading, perception, and the Victorians during a pandemic? Though not about the pandemic or sheltering in place, this book has an answer: like perception, it claims, reading literature connects us to the world. Click here to read the full review.