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E. Thomas Finan READING REALITY: NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN EXPERIMENTS IN THE REAL (Virginia, 2021) x + 209 pp. Reviewed by Marianne Noble on 2021-04-23 American Literature
The quest for reality in literature was not born with Realism. Click here to read the full review.

Karen Bourrier VICTORIAN BESTSELLER: THE LIFE OF DINAH CRAIK (Michigan, 2019) xiii + 246 pp. Reviewed by Tabitha Sparks on 2021-04-16 Victorian Novel
Though her novels are synonymous with domestic values and Christian piety, Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887) was not unacquainted with sensation and even scandal. Click here to read the full review.

Claire Connolly, ed. IRISH LITERATURE IN TRANSITION [VOLUME II], 1780-1830 (Cambridge, 2020) xvi + 439 pp. Reviewed by Patrick R. O'Malley on 2021-04-09 Irish Studies
Quick: what happened in Irish literary history in 1780? How about 1830? One of the challenges of conceptualizing Irish literature in terms of periods (romantic, for example, or Victorian) is that the customary narratives of cultural and political development don't quite apply: 1798 might have more salience than 1789, 1829 more than 1837. Click here to read the full review.

Jonah Siegel MATERIAL INSPIRATIONS: THE INTERESTS OF THE ART OBJECT IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND AFTER (Oxford, 2020) xxviii + 373 pp. Reviewed by Elizabeth Helsinger on 2021-03-19 Material Culture
There is more than one way to read this fine book. Click here to read the full review.

Clare Pettitt SERIAL FORMS: THE UNFINISHED PROJECT OF MODERNITY, 1815-1848 (Oxford, 2020) xviii + 368pp. Reviewed by Matthew Poland on 2021-03-16 Victorian Culture
"THE DESTRUCTION OF POMPEII EVERY EVENING," reads an advertisement displayed just above the figures at left in John Parry's painting A London Street Scene (1835). Click here to read the full review.

Justin Tonra Write My Name: Authorship in the Poetry of Thomas Moore (Routledge, 2021) xiv + 193pp. Reviewed by Julia M. Wright on 2021-02-22 Romantic Poetry
Justin Tonra's study offers a welcome new twist in Moore studies. Click here to read the full review.