Reviews

Reviews of author-specific works appear on the appropriate author pages; some of the titles listed below may also be linked on particular author pages.

Women’s Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley by E. J. Clery (Devon, U.K.: Northcote House, 2000). Reviewer: Harriet Kramer Linkin. [Romantic Circles]
Romanticism and the Gothic: Genre, Reception, and Canon Formation by Michael Gamer (Cambridge UP, 2000). Reviewer: Anne Williams.   [Romantic Circles]
This book is also reviewed at Romanticism on the Net, by Douglass H. Thomson.
A Companion to the Gothic Ed. David Punter (Blackwell, 2000). Reviewer: Douglass H. Thomson. [Romanticism on the Net]
A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History's Nightmares by Robert Mighall (Oxford UP, 1999). Reviewer: Jacqueline Howard.  [Romanticism on the Net]
Contesting the Gothic: Fiction, Genre and Cultural Conflict, 1764-1832 by James Watt (Cambridge UP, 1999). Reviewer: Diane Long Hoeveler. [Romantic Circles]
· This work is also reviewed by Lauren Fitzgerald at Romanticism on the Net
Gothic Pathologies: The Text, the Body and the Law by David Punter (Houndsmills, England: Macmillan, 1998). Reviewer: Steven Bruhm. [Romanticism on the Net]
Tales of Terror from Blackwood's Magazine and The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre Eds. Robert Morrison and Chrisk Baldick. (Oxford: UP, 1995 and 1997, respectively). Reviewer: Rebecca E. Martin. [Romanticism on the Net]
The Handbook to Gothic Literature Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts (Macmillan, 1998). Reviewer: Glennis Byron  [Romanticism on the Net]
Gothic Feminism: The Professionalization of Gender from Charlotte Smith to the Brontës by Diane Long Hoeveler. (Penn State UP, 1998) Reviewer: Deborah Kennedy [Romantic Circles]
The same title is reviewed in Romanticism on the Net. Reviewer: Lauren Fitzgerald
Gothic America: Narrative, History, and Nation by Teresa A. Goddu. (Columbia UP, 1997) Reviewer: Dennis Berthold [Romantic Circles]
The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle by Kelly Hurley (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996) and Alien Nation: Nineteenth-century Gothic Fictions and English Nationality by Cannon Schmitt (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1997).  Reviewer: Fred Botting. [Romanticism on the Net]
   — The Gothic Body is also reviewed by Julie Kiestra at New Books in 19th-Century British Studies [USC]
Modern Gothic: A Reader. Eds. Victor Sage and Allan Lloyd Smith (Manchester and New York: Manchester UP, 1996) Reviewer: Rebecca E. Martin [Romanticism on the Net]
The Literature of Terror: A History of Gothic Fictions from 1765 to the Present Day. Volume 1: The Gothic Tradition by David Punter (Longman, 1996). Reviewer: Chris Baldick [Romanticism on the Net]
The Rise of Supernatural Fiction 1762-1800 by Emma Cleary (Cambridge UP, 1995). Reviewer: Nicola Trott [Romanticism on the Net]
   — publisher's blurb w/ review exerpts
Gothic Images of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain by H. L. Malchow (Stanford UP, 1996). Reviewer: Julie Kiestra [New Books in 19th-Century British Studies]

E. J. Clery, Women's Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley by E. J. Clery (Northcote House, 2000). Reviewer: Harriet Kramer Linkin [Romantic Circles]


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