“If we are capable of showing what is good in another, and neglect to do it, we omit a duty”

Walter Savage Landor, Pericles and Aspasia

 
 
     
 
 

Publications — Book Reviews

 
     
 

Text as Process: Creative Composition in Wordsworth, Tennyson, and Dickinson, by Sally Bushell (Charlottesville and London, 2009), Romanticism 17/2 (summer 2011), 258-59.

English Romantic Writers and the West Country, ed. Nicholas Roe (Houndmills, 2010), Essays in English Romanticism 35 (2011), 133-37.

The Japan of Pure Invention: Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, by Josephine Lee (Minneapolis and London, 2010), Studies in Musical Theatre 4/3 (2010), 345-47.

The Domestication of Genius: Biography and the Romantic Poet, by Julian North (Oxford, 2009), George Borrow Bulletin, 2nd series 1 (autumn 2010), 55-57.

The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry , ed. James Chandler and Maureen N. McLane (Cambridge, 2008), Studies in English Literature Japanese Number 86 (2009), 46-52.

The Politics of Romantic Theatricality, 1787-1832: The Road to the Stage , by David Worrall (Houndmills, 2007), Essays in English Romanticism 33 (2009), 139-44.

The Oxford English Literary History. Volume 8. 1830-1880: The Victorians, by Philip Davis (Oxford, 2002), George Borrow Bulletin 38 (spring 2009), 70-73.

Gypsies and the British Imagination, 1807-1930, by Deborah Epstein Nord (New York, 2006), George Borrow Bulletin 36 (spring 2008), 87-92.

Kindred Brutes: Animals in Romantic-Period Writing, by Christine Kenyon-Jones (Aldershot, 2001), and Romanticism and Animal Rights, by David Perkins (Cambridge, 2003), Romanticism on the Net 36-37 (February 2005). ONLINE: read at http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2004/v/n36-37/011147ar.html

Wordsworth: An Inner Life, by Duncan Wu (Oxford, 2002), Studies in English Literature English Number 45 (2004), 136-43.

Coleridge and the Idea of Friendship, 1789-1804, by Gurion Taussig (Newark and London, 2003), Wordsworth Circle 34/4 (fall 2003), 203-4.

Wordsworth’s Counterrevolutionary Turn: Community, Virtue, and Vision in the 1790s, by John Rieder (Newark and London, 1997), Romanticism on the Net 18 (May 2000). ONLINE: read at http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/2000/v/n18/005922ar.html

The Genius of Shakespeare, by Jonathan Bate (London, 1997), Essays in Criticism 48 (October 1998), 379-83.

A Quest for Home: Reading Robert Southey, by Christopher J. P. Smith (Liverpool, 1997), Romanticism on the Net 10 (May 1998). ONLINE: read at http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1998/v/n10/005800ar.html

Youth and Revolution in the 1790s: Letters of William Pattisson, Thomas Amyot and Henry Crabb Robinson, edited by Penelope J. Corfield and Chris Evans (Stroud, 1996), Romanticism On the Net 7 (August 1997). ONLINE: read at
http://www.erudit.org/revue/ron/1997/v/n7/005756ar.html

Greene’s Groatsworth of Wit, edited by D. Allen Carroll (New York, 1994), Elizabethan Review 3/1 (spring 1995), 62-7.

— Oxford Poetry Library Editions of Wordsworth and Coleridge (Oxford, 1994), Charles Lamb Bulletin NS 89 (January 1995), 40-2.