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Nicola J. Watson THE AUTHOR'S EFFECTS: ON WRITER'S HOUSE MUSEUMS (Oxford, 2020) xii + 336 pp. Reviewed by LuAnn McCracken Fletcher on 2020-07-09 Victorian Culture
Reading this book feels a lot like visiting a museum. Click here to read the full review.

Anne Toner Jane Austen's Style: Narrative Economy and the Novel's Growth (Cambridge, 2020) xi + 210 pp. Reviewed by Megan Quinn on 2020-07-09 Austen Studies
We often treat Jane Austen's narrative economy as a truth universally acknowledged. Click here to read the full review.

Karen Swann LIVES OF THE DEAD POETS: KEATS, SHELLEY, COLERIDGE (Fordham, 2019) 178 pp. Reviewed by Jonathan Culler on 2020-07-08
This book, Swann explains, "explores the insistence of biography in the reception histories of Keats, Shelley, and Coleridge, three British romantic poets who could be said to have shared a condition of premature arrest" (1). Click here to read the full review.

Will Bowers THE ITALIAN IDEA: ANGLO-ITALIAN RADICAL LITERARY CULTURE, 1815-1823 (Cambridge, 2020) xix + 269 pp. Reviewed by Maria Schoina on 2020-07-05 Italian Romanticism
In recent years, studies of British Romanticism have tended to challenge the national contours of this literary and cultural movement by emphasizing instead its international perspectives, its intercultural features and contacts, its cosmopolitan connections with Europe, America, and the wider world. Click here to read the full review.

Maurice S. Lee OVERWHELMED: LITERATURE, AESTHETICS, AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY INFORMATION REVOLUTION (Princeton, 2019) xii + 277 pp. Reviewed by Priyanka Anne Jacob on 2020-06-30 Victorian
In the second half of the nineteenth century, a flurry of books, one "swelling to six volumes," offered redundant guides to "the best books" ever published (117). Click here to read the full review.

Daniel Westover and Thomas Alan Holmes, eds. THE FIRE THAT BREAKS: GERARD MANLEY HOPKINSS POETIC LEGACIES (Clemson, 2020) viii + 344 pp. Reviewed by A. J. Nickerson on 2020-06-15 Victorian Poetry
"Echos," Hopkins complained, "are a disease of education, literature is full of them; but they remain a disease, an evil" (6 February 1885). Click here to read the full review.