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| Lisa C. Robertson
HOME AND IDENTITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERARY LONDON
(Edinburgh, 2020) vii + 215 pp.
Reviewed by Ruth McAdams on 2020-10-30
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Ranging from 1880 to 1920, this book examines literary representations of new experiments in urban architecture that were necessitated by a growing population.
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HEAVEN'S INTERPRETERS: WOMEN WRITERS AND RELIGIOUS AGENCY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA
(Cornell University Press, 2020) ix + 262 pp.
Reviewed by James Emmett Ryan on 2020-09-19
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Before about 1820, as literary historians of early America have demonstrated, American novels were interesting but rather uncommon and not widely distributed.
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| Barbara Black
HOTEL LONDON: HOW VICTORIAN COMMERCIAL HOSPITALITY SHAPED A NATION AND ITS STORIES
(Ohio State, 2019) x + 245 pp.
Reviewed by Melissa Fegan on 2020-08-24
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This book is the final instalment in Barbara Black's trilogy on the great institutions of nineteenth-century London: museums (On Exhibit, 2000), gentlemen's clubs (A Room of His Own, 2012), and now the grand hotel.
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