We are seeking new contributors for the BARS Review. Please fill out THIS FORM to let us know what kind of books you may be able to review for us. Any queries can be directed to the editor, Caroline Anjali Ritchie, at caroline.ritchie@exeter.ox.ac.uk.
We thank you for your interest in reviewing for BARS!
A list of books available for review is below –
Austen:
Freya Johnston, Jane Austen: Early and Late (Princeton UP, 2021)
Jane Austen, Early and Late | Princeton University Press
Brontë:
Matthew Reynolds, et al. Prismatic Jane Eyre Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages (Open Book, 2023)
Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close-Reading a World Novel Across Languages | Open Book Publishers
Clare:
Simon Kovesi and Scott McEathron, eds. New Essays on John Clare: Poetry, Culture and Community (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Daniel Eltringham, Poetry and Commons: Postwar and Romantic Lyric in Times of Enclosure (Liverpool, 2022)
Poetry & Commons | Liverpool University Press
Galt:
Gerard Caruthers and Colin Kid, eds. The International Companion to John Galt (Scottish Literature International, 2017)
International Companion 5 – Association for Scottish Literature
Gilbert:
Paul Chesire, William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism: A contextual Study and Annotated Edition of The Hurricane (Liverpool UP, 2017)
William Gilbert and Esoteric Romanticism | Liverpool University Press
Keats:
Suzie Grogan, John Keats: Poetry, Life and Landscapes (Pen and Sword, 2021)
Pen and Sword Books: John Keats – Hardback
Susan J. Wolfson, A Greeting of the Spirit: Selected Poetry of john Keats with Commentaries (Harvard UP, 2021)
A Greeting of the Spirit — Harvard University Press
Lamb:
Eric G. Wilson, Dream-Child: A Life of Charles Lamb (Yale UP, 2022)
Dream-Child – Yale University Press London
Macpherson:
Dafydd Moore, ed. International Companion to James MacPherson and the Poems of Ossian (Scottish Literature International, 2017)
International Companion 4 – Association for Scottish Literature
P.B. Shelley:
Carlene Adamson, et al, eds. Shelley: Shelley Selected Poems (Routledge, 2023)
Shelley: Selected Poems – 1st Edition – Carlene Adamson – Kelvin Evere
Valentina Varinelli, Italian Impromptus: A Study of P.B. Shelley’s Writings in Italian with an Annotated Edition (LED, 2022)
Tolkien:
William Sherwood and Julian Eilmann, eds. The Romantic Spirit in the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien (Walking Tree, 2024)
Wilde:
Nicholas Frankel, The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde (Harvard UP, 2022)
The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde — Harvard University Press
Sean O’Toole, Dorian Unbound: Transnational Decadence and the Wilde Archive (Johns Hopkins UP, 2023)
Dorian Unbound | Hopkins Press
William Wordsworth:
Graham Davidson, The Intelligible Ode: Intimations of Paradise (Lutterworth, 2023)
The Intelligible Ode: Intimations of Paradise
Gothic Studies:
Dion Boucicault: The Vampire (1852) and The Phantom (1873). edited by Matthew Knight and Gary D. Rhodes.
The New Queer Gothic: Reading Queer Girls and Women in Contemporary Fiction and Film by Robyn Ollett.
Horror in Classical Literature: ‘On a Profound and Elementary Principle’ by Edmund P. Cueva.
Elizabeth Gunning: The Foresters A Novel (1796) edited by Victoria Grace Derbyshire
Financial Gothic: Monsterized Capitalism in American Gothic Fiction by Amy Bride
Eighteenth- / Nineteenth- Century Ideas:
Julia Banister, Masculinity, Militarism and Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1689-1815 (Cambridge UP, 2018)
Masculinity, Militarism and Eighteenth-Century Culture, 1689–1815
Xiaohu Jiang, The Late Eighteenth-Century Confluence of British=German Sentimental Literature: The Lessing Brothers, Henry Mackenzie, Goethe, and Jane Austen (Lexington, 2020)
Noah Heringman, Deep Time: A Literary History (Princeton UP, 2023)
Deep Time | Princeton University Press
Stephanie Insley Hershinow, Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Born Yesterday | Hopkins Press
Andrew Franta, Systems Failure: The Uses and Disorder of English Literature (Johns Hopkins UP, 2019)
Systems Failure | Hopkins Press
Ian Duncan, Human Forms: The Novel in the Age of Evolution (Princeton UP, 2019)
Human Forms | Princeton University Press
Jon Mee, Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies and machines in the Industrial Revolution (U of Chicago P, 2023)
Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies, and Machines in the Industrial Revolution, Mee
Chris Washington and Anne C. McCarthy, eds. Romanticism and Speculative Realism (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Romanticism and Speculative Realism: : Chris Washington: Bloomsbury Academic
Seventeenth-/ Eighteenth-Century Civic Development:
Simon Peter Hull, The Familiar Essay, Romantic Affect and Metropolitan Culture: The Sweet Security of Streets (Cambridge Scholars, 2018)
Murray Pittock, Enlightenment in a Smart City: Edinburgh’s Civic Development 1660-1750 (Edinburgh UP, 2019)