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Irena Yamboliev ORNAMENT, THE NOVEL, AND THE VICTORIAN REAL (Oxford, 2025), 256 pp. Reviewed by Max Chapnick on 2026-03-23 Victorian Art
Sometimes, surely like many professional literary scholars, I wonder about our purpose. Click here to read the full review.

Sarah Danielle Allison THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP (Columbia, 2025) 250 pp. Reviewed by Juliet Shields on 2026-02-18 Victorian Literature
The Rise of Celebrity Authorship is about ways of reading as much as it is about celebrity authorship, nineteenth-century print culture, and antislavery. Click here to read the full review.

Stefanie Markovits THE NUMBER SENSE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE (Oxford, 2025) vii + 223 pp. Reviewed by Sophia Hsu on 2026-02-17 Victorian Science
Like the Romantics and Victorians before us, we live in a numbery age. Click here to read the full review.

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
This text may be purchased directly from the publisher as an alternative to Amazon. Click here to read the full review.

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. Click here to read the full review.

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. Click here to read the full review.