Category: Romantic and Victorian

Nicole C. Dittmer and Sophie Raine (eds), Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror, Gothic Literary Studies Series (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2023), 248 pp. £75 Hb. ISBN 9781786839701 In the introduction to Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic: Investigations of Pernicious Tales of Terror, Nicole Dittmer and Sophie Raine make…

S. Pearl Brilmyer, The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian Realism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022) 299 pp. £79.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780226815770 The Science of Character sets out to refute the traditional narrative of the rise of the novel as a ‘movement of character from inside to outside, surface to…