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Winter Jade Werner Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Ohio State, 2020) xi + 210 pp. Reviewed by Mary Ellis Gibson on 2020-11-06 Victorian Studies
By age twelve I was satiated with Baptist sermons. Click here to read the full review.

Clara Dawson VICTORIAN POETRY AND THE CULTURE OF EVALUATION (Oxford, 2020). x + 256 pp. Reviewed by Justin Sider on 2020-11-06 Victorian Poetry
In Poems and Lyrics of the Joy of Earth (1883), George Meredith takes a crack at reviewers in a pleasingly clumsy sonnet entitled "The Point of Taste," which speaks to his fellow poets: Unhappy poets of a sunken prime! You to reviewers are as ball to bat. Click here to read the full review.

Beth Barton Schweiger A LITERATE SOUTH: READING BEFORE EMANCIPATION (Yale, 2019) xxxiii + 258 pp. Reviewed by Barbara Hochman on 2020-10-31 American Literature
This book challenges the "orthodox" view of the antebellum South as an illiterate culture (199). Click here to read the full review.

Lisa C. Robertson HOME AND IDENTITY IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERARY LONDON (Edinburgh, 2020) vii + 215 pp. Reviewed by Ruth McAdams on 2020-10-30 Victorian Studies
Ranging from 1880 to 1920, this book examines literary representations of new experiments in urban architecture that were necessitated by a growing population. Click here to read the full review.

Andrea Charise THE AESTHETICS OF SENESCENCE: AGING, POPULATION, AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH NOVEL (SUNY, 2020) xlv + 194 pp. Reviewed by Alice Crossley on 2020-10-17 Victorian Studies
This welcome study shows how nineteenth-century British novels about aging intersect with historical debates across multiple disciplines. Click here to read the full review.

Ian Haywood THE RISE OF VICTORIAN CARICATURE (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) xvii + 296 pp. Reviewed by Richard Scully on 2020-10-17
Scholarship on Victorian-era cartooning and caricature has lately been undergoing a quiet resurgence. Click here to read the full review.