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Dennis Denisoff DECADENT ECOLOGY IN BRITISH LITERATURE AND ART, 1860-1910 (Cambridge, 2022) ix + 260 pp. Reviewed by Elizabeth Helsinger on 2021-12-31 Ecological Criticism
Dennis Denisoff has written extensively about decadence and sexuality. Click here to read the full review.

Chris Murray CHINA FROM THE RUINS OF ATHENS AND ROME (Oxford, 2020) xx + 222 pp. Reviewed by James Watt on 2021-09-25
The point of departure for this ambitious and original book is that "you can't understand how Anglophone ideas of China formed without paying attention to classics" (6). Click here to read the full review.

Seth T. Reno Amorous Aesthetics: Intellectual Love in Romantic Poetry and Poetics, 1788--1853 (Liverpool, 2019) viii + 246 pp. Reviewed by Chris Murray on 2021-08-25 Victorian Poetry
"The affections lead us on," Wordsworth writes in "Tintern Abbey. Click here to read the full review.

Jonathan Senchyne THE INTIMACY OF PAPER IN EARLY AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE (University of Massachusetts, 2020) xiv + 176pp. Reviewed by D. Berton Emerson on 2021-07-01 Print Culture
Much as the study of ideas in U. Click here to read the full review.

Ashley C. Barnes LOVE AND DEPTH IN THE AMERICAN NOVEL: FROM STOWE TO JAMES (Virginia, 2020) x+230 pp. Reviewed by Brian Yothers on 2021-06-22 American Novel
The title of Ashley C. Click here to read the full review.

Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner, eds. THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF VICTORIAN MEDIEVALISM Part VI: Literature (Oxford, 2020) xx + 688 pp. Reviewed by Veronica Alfano on 2021-06-12 Victorian Novel and Victorian Poetry
Nostalgia can seem intrinsically opposed to progressive ideals. Click here to read the full review.