The Editors are pleased to announce the publication of the 49th number of The BARS Review, the seventh available in full online through the new website. This number includes twenty-seven reviews covering thirty-one new publications, as well as a special spotlight on Romantic Revolutions. The list of contents below includes links to the html versions of the articles, but all the reviews are also available as pdfs. If you want to browse through the whole number at your leisure, a pdf compilation of all the reviews is available.
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Editor: Susan Valladares (St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford)
General Editors: Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton), Susan Oliver (University of Essex) & Nicola J. Watson (Open University)
Technical Editor: Matthew Sangster (University of Glasgow)
The BARS Review, No 49 (Spring 2017)
Table of Contents
Reviews
| Meiko O’Halloran, James Hogg and British Romanticism: A Kaleidoscopic Art | |
| Holly Faith Nelson |
| Gillian Williamson, British Masculinity in the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1731 to 1815 | |
| Caroline Gonda |
| Bernard Beatty, Byron’s Don Juan | |
| Anna Camilleri |
| Clara Tuite, Lord Byron and Scandalous Celebrity | |
| Emily A. Bernhard Jackson |
| Sara Guyer, Reading with John Clare: Biopoetics, Sovereignty, Romanticism | |
| Adam White |
| Adam Roberts, Landor’s Cleanness. A Study of Walter Savage Landor | |
| Gioia Angeletti |
| Marilyn Butler, Mapping Mythologies: Countercurrents in Eighteenth-Century British Poetry and Cultural History | |
| Chris Bundock |
| Mark Canuel, ed., British Romanticism: Criticism and Debates | |
| Octavia Cox |
| Adriana Craciun, Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration | |
| Murray Pittock |
| David Porter, The Chinese Taste in the Eighteenth Century | |
| William Christie |
| Jennifer Jesse, William Blake’s Religious Vision: There’s a Methodism in His Madness | |
| Keri Davies |
| Andrew Bennett, ed., William Wordsworth in Context and Robert M. Ryan, Charles Darwin and the Church of Wordsworth | |
| Christopher Donaldson |
| Angela Wright and Dale Townshend, eds., Romantic Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion | |
| Matt Foley |
| Jim Davis, Comic Acting and Portraiture in Late-Georgian and Regency England | |
| Heather McPherson |
| Liam Lenihan, The Writings of James Barry and the Genre of History Painting, 1775-1809 | |
| Christopher Rovee |
| John Bugg, ed., The Joseph Johnson Letterbook | |
| James M. Morris |
| Stewart Cooke with Elaine Bander, eds., The Additional Journals and Letters of Frances Burney, Volume I: 1784-1786 | |
| Cassandra Ulph |
| Amy Prendergast, Literary Salons Across Britain and Ireland in the Long Eighteenth Century | |
| Susanne Schmid |
| Tim Fulford, Romantic Poetry and Literary Coteries: The Dialect of the Tribe and Tim Fulford and Michael E. Sinatra, eds., The Regency Revisited | |
| Josefina Tuominen-Pope |
| Matthew Wickman, Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment | |
| Marcus Tomalin |
| Mark J. Bruhn and Donald R. Wehrs, eds., Cognition, Literature, and History | |
| Niall Gildea |
| Chase Pielak, Memorializing Animals during the Romantic Period | |
| Barbara K. Seeber |
Spotlight: Romantic Revolutions
| David Andress, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the French Revolution | |
| Liam Chambers |
| A. D. Cousins and Geoffrey Payne, eds., Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions | |
| Amy Milka |
| James Mulholland, Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730-1820 and Evan Gottlieb, Romantic Globalism: British Literature and Modern World Order, 1750-1830 | |
| Juan Luis Sánchez |
| Mary Fairclough, The Romantic Crowd: Sympathy, Controversy and Print Culture | |
| David Fallon |