Books Reviewed
Review of Susan Jhirad, Dickens' Inferno: The Moral World of Charles Dickens. The Dickensian 110, no. 493 (2014): 154-155.
Review of John O. Jordan And Gordon Bigelow (eds.), Approaches to Teaching Dickens’s Bleak House. The Dickensian 105, no. 478 (2009): 157.
Review of Judith Flanders, The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Victorian London. Dickens Quarterly. 31, no. 2 (2014): 172-174.
Review of Jerry White, London in the Nineteenth Century: 'A Human Awful Wonder of God'. The Dickensian 103, no. 472 (2007): 166.
Review of Garret Stewart, The One, Other, and Only Dickens. The Dickensian 115, no. 508 (2019): 186.
Review of Joseph Jordan, Dickens' Novels as Verse. The Dickensian 109, no. 489 (2013): 62.
Review of Claire Wood, Dickens and the Business of Death. The Dickensian vol. 113, no. 501 (2017): 57.
Review of Gavin Edwards, The Case of the Initial Letter: Charles Dickens and the Politics of the Dual Alphabet. The Dickensian 117, no. 513 (2021): 71-72.
Review of Andrew Mangham, Dickens's Forensic Realism. The Dickensian 113, no. 502 (2017): 178-179.
Review of Dennis Walder, Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation, and Memory. Modern Language Review 107, no. 3 (2012): 910–911.
Review of Barry McCrea, In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust. The Review of English Studies 2012: 871–873.
Review of Terry Eagleton, The Event of Literature. Modern Language Review 108, no. 1 (2013): 284–285.
Review of Peggy Kamuf, Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty, MLR 117 (2022), 108-109.
Review of Patricia McKee, Reading Consellations: Urban Modernity in Victorian Fiction, MLR 111 (2016), 858-860
Review of Stephen Jarvis, Death and Mr Pickwick. Dickensian, 2015: 269-271.
Review of Marc Napolitano, Oliver! A Dickensian Musical, New Books Online 19
Review of Julian Wolfreys, Dickens’ London, New Books Online, 19
Review of Gillian Piggott, Dickens and Benjamin, Review Books Online 19
Review of Richard Hughes Gibson, Forgiveness in Victorian Literature: Grammar, Narrative, and Community, Bloomsbury 2015., MLR 111 (2016): 1123-1125
Review of Malcolm Andrews, Dickensian Laughter: Essays on Dickens and Humour, Notes and Queries 2015 62 (4): 636-637
Review of Marc Napolitano, Oliver! A Dickensian Musical, New Books Online 19, https://review19.org/view_doc.php?index=409
Review of Julian Wolfreys, Dickens’ London, New Books Online, 19 https://review19.org/view_doc.php?index=311
Review of Gillian Piggott, Dickens and Benjamin, Review Books Online 19, https://review19.org/view_doc.php?index=295
Review of Sarah Haggarty, Blake’s Gifts: Poetry and the Politics of Exchange, MLR 107 (2012), 278-9
Review of Sibylle Erle, Blake, Lavater and Physiognomy, MLN, 106 (2011), 1132-3
Review of John Maynard, Literary Intention, and Readers. MLR 106. 2001. 219-220
Review of Erik Gray, Milton and the Victorians, MLR 105.2.(2010), 537-8
Review of Ranald C Michie, Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction 1815-1914, H-Urban, http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=24833
Review of Stefan Collini, Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics, MLR, 104.3 (2009), 854-855
Review of Jason Marc Harris, Folklore and the Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction, MLR 104.3 (2009), 847-8
Review of Herbert F. Tucker, Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse, MLR, 104.3.842-3
Review of Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Mapping World Literature: International Canonization and Transnational Literatures, MLR 103.3 (2009), 824-6
Review of Julia Prewitt Brown, The Bourgeois Interior: How the Middle Class Imagines itself in Literature and Film, Dickens Quarterly 26.1 (2009) 48-51.
Review of Robert Rix, William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity, Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 32.1. (2009), 123-4.
Review of Steve Clark and David Worrall (eds.), Blake, Nation and Empire, Byron Journal 36.1 (2008), 77-78
Review of Sarah Annes Brown and Catherine Silverstone (eds.), Tragedy in Transition, MLR 104.1.133-4
Review of Helen Small, The Long Life, MLR 104.1. 134-5
Review of Open Secrets: Education and Authority from J.-J. Rousseau to J.M. Coetzee, MLR 103.4.1095-6
Review of Stefan Collini, Absent Minds: Intellectuals in Britain, MLR. 103.2, 2008, 544-555.
Review of Francis J. Ambrosio, Dante and Derrida: Face to Face, MLR, 103, 2008, 494-5.
Review of Victor Li, The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections on Alterity, Culture and Modernity, MLR, 103.1 (2008), 177.
Review of Jan Alber, Narrating the Prison, Dickensian, 104 (2008), 54-55
Review of Mary Jacobus, The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein, MLR 102.4. 1130-1131
Review of M.A.R. Habib, A History of Literary Criticism: From Plato to the Present. MLR. 102.3.(2007), 812-3.
Review of Will Slocombe, Nihilism and the Postmodern Sublime, MLR 102.2 April 2007, 472-3.
Review of Marina Van Zuylen, Monomania, MLR January 2007, 188-189
Review of Zhang Longxi, Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West, MLR January 2007, 180-181
Review of Robert Alter, Imagined Cities, Dickens Quarterly June 2006, 125-127.
Review of Carla Denet, George Ferzoco, Miriam Gill and Marina Spunta, Proteus: The Language of Metamorphosis, MLR 101. 2006, 816.
Review of Antonella Braida, Dante and the Romantics, YES 36.2.270-271.
Review of A Baedeker of Decadence: Charting a Literary Fashion 1884-1927 by George C. Schoolfield, and Peter Brooker, Bohemia in London: The Social Scene of Early Modernism, MLR 101 (2006), 214-216
Review of Emily R. Wilson, Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton, MLR 100 (2005), 1074-1075
Review of Alan Robinson, Imagining London, 1770-1900. Dickensian Spring 2005, 64-66.
Review of John Burr Foster jr and Wayne J. Froman (eds.), Thresholds of Western Culture: Postcoloniality, Transnationalism; Massimo Verdicchio and Robert Burch (eds.) Between Philosophy and Poetry: Writing, Rhythm, History; and James Swearingen and Joanne Cutting-Gray, Extreme Beauty: Aesthetics, Death, MLR 35 (2005), 344-347
Review Essay: ‘Puritanism and Colonialism’, review of Sarojini Jayawickrama, “Writing that Conquers: Re-reading Knox’s ‘An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon”‘, Polity [Colombo] 2004 vol 2 no. 2, 15-19.
Review of Stanley Freidman, Edward Giuliano, Anne Humpherys, Michael Timko (eds.) Dickens Studies Annual 33, Dickensian 100 (Summer 2004), 161-163
Review of Paul Robinson, “Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters”, Sexualities 7 (2) 2004, 253-255
Review of Richard Halpern, “Shakespeare’s Perfume”, Sexualities 7 (1) 2004, 121-123
Review of Tim Fulford, ed. “Romanticism and Millenarianism” and Tristanne J. Connolly, “William Blake and the Body”, MLR 99 (2004), 752-54
Review of Amy Elias, ‘Sublime Desire: History and Post 1960s Fiction’ and Valentine Cunningham, Rereading After Theory, YES 34 (2004), 325-327.
Review of Loss Pequeno Glazier, “Digital Poetics: The Making of E-Poetries” and Marjorie Perloff, “21st Century Modernism: The ‘New’ Poetics” MLR 99 (2004), 183-185.
Review of Jerome Meckier, “Great Expectations: Misnar’s Pavilion versus Cinderella,” The Dickensian 99 (Summer 2003), 165-67
Review of Lyn Pykett, “Charles Dickens: Critical Issues,” The Dickensian 99 (Spring 2003), 62-64
Review of Sheila A. Spector, “‘Wonders Divine’: The Development of Blake’s Kabbalistic Myth,” and “‘Glorious Incomprehensible’: The Development of Blake’s Kabbalistic Language,” MLR 98 (2003), 973-4
Review of David Trend, ed. “Reading Digital Culture”, MLR 98 (2003), 191-3
Review of David Farrell Krell, “The Purest of Bastards: Works of Mourning, Art and Affirmation in the Thought of Jacques Derrida, MLR 98 (2003), 541-42
Review of Kathleen Lundeen, “Knight of the Living Dead: William Blake and the Problem of Ontology,” and Tony Trigilio, “Strange Prophecies: Re-reading Apocalypse in Blake, H.D. and Ginsberg,” and Michael Philips, “William Blake: The Creation of the ‘Songs’: From Manuscript to Illuminated Printing,” MLR 98 (2003), 438-40
Review of Peter Brooks, “Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature,” MLR, 98 (2003), 416-7
Review essay: “Savage Nights: Sexuality and the City”; on Ben Gove, Cruising Culture: Promiscuity, Desire and American Gay Literature; Mandy Merck, In Your Face: Nine Sexual Studies; Hugh Stevens and Caroline Howlett (eds.) Modernist Sexualities, Sexualities 2002 5 (2002), 114-119.
Review of Joseph Kronick, “Derrida and the Future of Literature,” and Bruce Lincoln, “Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology and Scholarship,” YES 32, (2002),333-335.
Review of Ken Hirschkop, “Mikhail Bahktin: An Aesthetic for Democracy,” and Craig Brandist and Galin Tihanov (eds.) “Materializing Bakhtin: The Bakhtin Circle and Social Theory” YES 32 (2002), 331-333
Review ofSteven Connor, “Dumbstruck: A Cultural History of Ventriloquism,” MLR 97 (2002), 786-7.
Review of John Bowen, “Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit,” and Andrew Sanders, “Dickens and the Spirit of the Age,” Nineteenth-Century Literature 55 (2001), 548-552.
Review of Hayden White, “Figural Realism,” Susan Rowland, “C.G. Jung and Literary Theory” and David Boyd and Imre Salusinsky (eds.) “Re-reading Frye” MLR 96 (2001), 452-4.
Review of Michael Caesar, “Umberto Eco” MLR 96 (2001), 145-6
Review of N. Katherine Hayles, “How We Became Post-Human” MLR 96 (2001), 143-5
Review of Stuart Burnett, (ed.) “Hegel after Derrida,” MLR 95 (2000), 1179-80
Review of Adeline R. Tintner, “Henry James’s Legacy: The Afterlife of his Figure and Fiction,” Henry James Review 21 (2000) 189-190.Christina Howells, “Derrida: From Phenomenology to Ethics” MLR 95 (2000), 1178
Review of Rodolphe Gasché, “The Wild Card of Reading” MLR 95 (2000), 1177
Review of Paul Robinson, “Gay Lives: Homosexual Autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette,” Sexualities 3 (2000), 121-2.
Review of Eugene Goodheart, “The Reign of Ideology,” MLR 95 (2000), 169-170
Review of Vincent P. Pecora. “Households of the Soul.” MLR 94 (1999): 807-808.
Review of David S. Ferris (ed.) “Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Questions/” MLR 94 (1999): 486-7.
Review of Cathy Caruth. “Trauma: Explorations in Memory”; Michael S. Roth “The Ironist’s Cage: Memory, Trauma and the Construction of History.” MLR 94. (1999), 299-301.
Review of James Battersby, ed. “Reason and the Nature of Texts”; John O’Neill, ““Freud and the Passions,” YES 29 (1999), 318-320
Review of Andrew H. Miller “Novels Behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative”. YES, 28, 1998: 332-333.
Review of Liam Kennedy. “Susan Sontag: Mind As Passion”. MLR, 93.1, 1998:215-216.
Review of Kevin McLaughlin. “Writing in Parts: Imitation and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Literature”. MLR, 93.3, 1998: 800-801.
Review of Mark Edmundson. “Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to Derrida: A Defence of Poetry”. Mack Smith. “Literary Realism and the Ekphrastic Tradition”. MLR, 93.1, 1998: 156-158
Review of Joseph Bristow. “Sexuality”. Sexualities, 1(1), 1997:113-114.
Review of Hillis Miller. “Topographies”. MLR, 92.4, 1997: 928-929.Alexander Welsh. “Freud’s Wishful Dream Book”. MLR, 92.4, 1997: 925.Tom Cohen. “Anti-Mimesis from Plato to Hitchcock”. MLR, 92.4, 1997:924-925
Review of Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta (Trans. and ed.). “Vita Nuova”. MLR, 92.3, 1997: 750-751.
Review of Ruth Ronen. “Possible Worlds in Literary Theory”. Karl Heinz Bohrer. “Suddenness: On the Moment of Aesthetic Appearance”. MLR, 92.1, 1997:142-143.
Review of John Kleiner. “Mismapping the Underworld: Daring and Error in Dante’s ‘Comedy’” MLR, 91.4, 1996: 1008-1009.
Review of Matei Calinescu. “Rereading”. Robert D.Newman. “Transgressions of Reading: Narrative Engagement as Exile and Return”. MLR, 91.4, 1996: 950-951.
Review of Stephen Reckert. “Beyond Chrysanthemums: Perspectives on Poetry East and West” MLR, 91.3, 1996: 685-686.
Review of Ortwin De Graef. “Serenity on Crisis: A Preface to Paul De Man, 1939-1960”. Bruce Krajewski. “Travelling with Hermes: Hermeneutics and Rhetoric”. YES, 25,1995:235-236
Review of Susan Derwin. “The Ambivalence of Form: Lukacs, Freud, and the Novel”. YES, 25, 1995:232-233.
Review of Clare Regan Kinney. “Strategies of Poetic Narrative: Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Eliot”. David Jasper. “Rhetoric, Power and Community: An Exercise in Reserve”. YES, 25, 1995: 231-232
Review of Peter Burger. “The Decline of Modernism”. MLR, 90.3, 1995:723-724.
Review of Allon White. “Carnival, Hysteria, and Writing: Collected Essays and Autobiography”. MLR, 90.1, 1995: 170-171.
Review of John Sturrock. “The Language of a Autobiography: Studies in the First Person Singular”. David Ferris. “Theory and the Evasion of History”. MLR, 90.1,1995:123-125.
Review of David Lawton. “Blasphemy”. MLR, 90.1, 1995:123.
Review of A.D.Nuttall. “Openings: Narrative Beginnings from the Epic to the Novel”. David Perkins. “Is Literary History Possible?”. Timothy J.Reiss. “The Meaning of Literature”. MLR, 90.1, 1995:120-122.
Review of John Lennard. “But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English Printed Verse”. YES, 24, 1994: 353-354.
Review of Philip J.M.Sturgess. “Narrativity: Theory and Practice”. Bernard Duyfhuizen. “Narratives of Transmission”. MLR, 89.3, 1994: 699-700.
Review of Lorraine Clark. “Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Spectre of Dialectic”. MLR, 89.2, 1994: 457-458.
Review of Thomas Harrison. “Essayism: Conrad, Musil and Pirandello”. Stefan Collini (ed.) “Interpretation and Overinterpretation: Umberto Eco, with Richard Rorty,Jonathan Culler, Christine Brooke-Rose”. MLR, 89.2, 1994: 431-433
Review of Jonathan Dollimore. “Sexual Dissidence: Augustine to Wilde, Freud to Foucault”. Stephen Prickett (ed.). “Reading the Text: Biblical Criticism and Literary Theory”. MLR, 89.1, 1994: 175-177.
Review of Burton Raffel. “Artists All: Creativity, the University, and the World”. Angus Fletcher. “Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in Literature”. MLR, 89.1, 1994: 173-175
Review of Zachary Leader. “Writer’s Block”. MLR, 88.4, 1993: 927-928
Review of Neil Cornwell. “The Literary Fantastic: From Gothic to Postmodernism”. MLR, 87, 1992: 912- 913.
Review of Howard Jones. “The Epicurean Tradition”. Arthur F.Kinney. “Continental Humanist Poetics: Studies in Erasmus, Castiglione, Marguerite de Navarre, Rabelais, and Cervantes”. MLR, 86, 1991: 661-663.
Review of Martin Bock. “Crossing the Shadow-Line: The Literature of Estrangement” YES 21.1991: 316-318
Review of Harold Bloom. “Ruin the Sacred Truths: Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present”. MLR, 86, 1991: 655-656.
Review of Robert Pogue Harrison. “The Body of Beatrice”. MLR, 86.1, 1991: 220-221
Review of George Yost. “Pieracci and Shelley: An Italian Scripta ‘Ur Cenci’”. MLR, 84, 1989: 937-938
Review of Hayden White. “The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation”. MLQ 49 (1988): 192-19
Review of Philip Weinstein. “The Semantics of Desire: Changing Models of Identity from Dickens to Joyce.” James Joyce Broadsheet 25 (1988) 2.
Review of Rick Altman. “The American Film Musical”. Journal of American Studies, 22.2, 1988:294