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Will Abberley MIMICRY AND DISPLAY IN VICTORIAN LITERARY CULTURE: NATURE, SCIENCE, AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERARY IMAGINATION (Cambridge, 2020) vii + 293 pp. Reviewed by Laura Dassow Walls on 2021-02-22 Victorian Literature and Science
Charles Darwin closed his massive book The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871) with two memorable images suggesting the breakdown of ancient barriers dividing human and animal. Click here to read the full review.

Garrett Stewart THE ONE, OTHER, AND ONLY DICKENS (Ithaca and London: Cornell, 2018) pp. xxv + 216. Reviewed by Wendy Veronica Xin on 2021-02-22
Familiar as we might already be with Boz the social commentator and master-plotter, this book reveals an "Other" Dickens lurking silently in his novels all along, if only we could hear him. 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.

Jonathan Crimmins THE ROMANTIC HISTORICISM YET TO COME (Bloomsbury Academic, 2018) 179 pp. Reviewed by Padma Rangarajan on 2021-02-18 Romantic Literature
This densely challenging study aims to answer two distinct but related questions. Click here to read the full review.

Patrick Colm Hogan AMERICAN IDENTITY AND AMERICAN LITERATURE: A COGNITIVE CULTURAL STUDY FROM THE REVOLUTION TO THE CIVIL WAR (Routledge 2020) xii + 202 pp. Reviewed by Paul Gilmore on 2021-02-15 American Literature
In this book by a prolific and prominent specialist in the cognitive study of literature, Patrick Colm Hogan aims to use "cognitive and affective science" to inform his examination of a set of literary works dating from the Revolution to the Civil War, in the process advancing cultural studies and literary criticism. Click here to read the full review.

Alicia Mireles Christoff NOVEL RELATIONS: VICTORIAN FICTION AND BRITISH PSYCHOANALYSIS (Princeton UP, 2019) xii + 269 pp. Reviewed by Thomas Albrecht on 2021-02-11 Victorian Novel and Psychoanalysis
This book is a delightful, rich, ambitious, potentially paradigm-shifting work of literary criticism and literary theory. Click here to read the full review.