Author: Barri Gold

Melissa Bailes, Regenerating Romanticism: Botany, Sensibility, and Originality in British Literature, 1750-1830 (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2023) 282 pp. $115.00 Hb. $32.50 Pb. ISBN: 9780813949406 Melissa Bailes’s Regenerating Romanticism: Botany, Sensibility, and Originality in British Literature, 1750-1830 makes an important intervention in Romantic studies by calling into question the truism that Romantic poets rejected…

Gregory Tate, The Poet’s Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry, 1830-1870 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012). 224pp. £60 Hb. ISBN 978-0-19-965941-8. In The Poet’s Mind: The Psychology of Victorian Poetry, Gregory Tate works, in the true spirit of BSLS, to repair what so much of the twentieth century has torn asunder – the close and complex relations between…

Tamara Ketabgian, The Lives of Machines: The Industrial Imaginary in Victorian Literature and Culture (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2011), 252pp. Pb £30.50. ISBN 0472051407. This fascinating and challenging book stages an intervention not only in our habitual readings of the Victorian industrial novel, but also in our larger sense of how and…