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NATHAN K. HENSLEY
ACTION WITHOUT HOPE: VICTORIAN LITERATURE AFTER CLIMATE COLLAPSE
(Chicago, 2025), 344 pages.
Reviewed by Barbara Leckie on 2026-02-07
Ecocriticism and Victorian Literature
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Ryan Hanley
ROBERT WEDDERBURN: BRITISH INSURRECTIONARY, JAMAICAN ABOLITIONIST
(Yale, 2025) ix + 225 pp.
Reviewed by Alick McCallum on 2026-01-06
Black Romanticism
Editorial Note: This review forms the first part of a pair by our reviewer.
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Katey Castellano
ROBERT WEDDERBURN, ABOLITION, AND THE COMMONS: ROMANTICISM'S BLACK GEOGRAPHIES
(Cambridge, 2024) 1 + 211 pp.
Reviewed by Alick McCallum on 2026-01-06
Black Romanticism
Editorial Note: This forms the second part of Alick McCallum's pair of reviews, following upon Ryan Hanley's own scholarship on Robert Wedderburn: Black Insurrectionary, Jamaican Abolitionist.
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Anya Heise-von der Lippe
WRITING ROMANTIC CLIMATE CHANGE: GENDERED POETICS AND CRITICAL LEGACIES IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
(transcript, 2024) 272 pp.
Reviewed by Lisa Ottum on 2025-11-14
Imagine you are assembling an introductory lecture on Anglo-American Romanticism for undergraduates.
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Alexis Easley, ed.
BRITISH WRITERS, POPULAR LITERATURE AND NEW MEDIA INNOVATION, 1820-45
(Edinburgh University Press, 2024), 336 pages.
Reviewed by Sarah Allison on 2025-10-27
Victorian Media
Call it the nineteenth century print culture sublime: an overpowering miscellany of reprinted and newly-circulated works that included, among many other new kinds of images and genres, works as diverse as religious publications, secular celebrity forms, and fashion plates.
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Lindsey N. Chappell
TEMPORAL FORMS AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY MEDITERRANEAN: WRITING BRITISH HERITAGE IN ANCIENT LANDS
(Cambridge University Press, 2024) x + 300 pp.
Reviewed by Ruth McAdams on 2025-10-13
As I write, in September 2025, there are few bright spots in the world and the academy, but I can say with confidence that it is a great moment to study time.
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