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An annual volume of review-essays and reviews of scholarly works in English and American language and literature. Offers 24 review-essays on topics such as T.S. Eliot, Jane Austen, gender criticism and Oscar Wilde, printing houses of Victorian England, and the mock epic. Lacks an index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Review is an annual volume that publishes review-essays and reviews of scholarly works in English and American language and literature. It offers the scholarly community an otherwise unavailable forum exclusively for reviews, a place to publish treatments that are both lengthy and exacting.

Review, Volume 19, includes review-essays by W. Speed Hill on the Michigan "Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism" series; by Joseph Wiesenfarth on The Good Soldier and Ford Madox Ford; by Lawrence F. Rhu on early English verse; by William Baker on George Eliot; by J. E. Rivers on recent Nabokov scholarship; by Stanley Weintraub on Victorian culture; by Claire Marie-Peterson on Victorian women; by K. M. Newton on The Letters of George Henry Lewes: by Leon Hugo on G. B. Shaw; by Robert Geary on the Gothic in English fiction; by Richard Harrier on Barbara Estrin's Laura; by Laura Davis-Clapper on Virginia Woolf; by Gloria Chun on truth, fiction, ethics, theory, and literature; by Oliver S. Buckton on nineteenth-century homosexuality; by Alan Price on Edith Wharton; by Lance Newman on ecocriticism; by Richard Nash on literature and medicine in the eighteenth century; and by Linda Peterson on Margaret Oliphant.

SYNOPSIS

This 25th volume of the annual scholarly literature review journal REVIEW is announced to be the last by co-founder Hoge in a note preceding the rest of the text. Contained in the final volume are 25 reviews of scholarly works on English and American literature, including a biography of Virginia Woolf, cultural studies of Chaucer, a history of Shakespeare's first folio, and works analyzing Herman Melville. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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