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Merve Günday READING KEATS'S POETRY: ALTERNATIVE SUBJECT POSITIONS AND SUBJECT-OBJECT RELATIONS (Routledge, 2025) vi + 208 pp. Reviewed by David Sigler on 2026-07-07
Reading Keats's Poetry is an unusual and thrilling book: thrilling for the depth of its theoretical explorations, and unusual for its sustained focus on a single poet. Click here to read the full review.

Nora Crook, Neil Fraistat, and Stephen Behrendt and Stuart Curran, eds. THE COMPLETE POETRY OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, VOLUME FOUR (Johns Hopkins, 2025) lxvi + 1033 pp. Reviewed by Ross Wilson on 2026-06-10 Romantic Poetry
In 2000, editor Neil Fraistat used an epigraph from Julian and Maddalo to dedicate the inaugural volume of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley to his children, "wonder[s] of this earth, / Where there is little of transcendent worth. Click here to read the full review.

Stacey McDowell READING SYMPATHY IN ROMANTIC LITERATURE (Cambridge, 2026) 230 pp. Reviewed by Christina Lupton on 2026-05-27 Romantic Poetry
One fact about most kinds of reading and writing is that they require a kind of solitary repose--a room of one's own, as Virginia Woolf famously claims. Click here to read the full review.

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.