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Review: Reading Saki
Brian Gibson, Reading Saki: The Fiction of H.H. Munro (McFarland & Company Inc., 2014) Hector Hugh Munro, best known by his pen-name ‘Saki’, was a true “Edwardian” writer, with a literary career...
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Review: Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering...
Helena Gurfinkel, Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British Literature: Queering Patriarchy, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2014. In Outlaw Fathers in Victorian and Modern British...
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Review: Una L. Silberrad’s ‘The Good Comrade’ and Elizabeth Robins’s ‘The...
Una L. Silberrad, The Good Comrade, edited by Kate MacDonald (first published 1907; this edition and introduction 2014, Victorian Secrets) Elizabeth Robins, The Convert, edited by Emelyne Godfrey...
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Review: G.K.Chesterton, London and Modernity
Matthew Beaumont and Matthew Ingleby, eds. G.K. Chesterton, London and Modernity, London: Bloomsbury 2013 [ISBN:9781780937069] This lively and varied collection of essays on G. K. Chesterton’s...
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Review: The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel
Review of Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg, The Player Piano and the Edwardian Novel (Farnham: Ashgate 2015) Writing in the June 1920 issue of The Sackbut, Alvin Langdon Coburn claimed: There are some who are...
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Review: Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence
Review: Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence by Allan Johnson. (Palgrave 2014) In Alan Hollinghurst and the Vitality of Influence, Allan Johnson considers the visual influences of Alan...
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Review: Fin de siècle essays on the photographic nude
James Downs (ed.), A Carnal Medium: fin-de-siècle essays on the photographic nude. Portsmouth: Callum James Books, 2012. A Carnal Medium. Fin de siècle essays on the photographic nude is a collection...
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Review: Theodore Wratislaw – Fragments of a Life
D. J. Sheppard, Theodore Wratislaw: Fragments of a Life (The Rivendale Press, 2017) Was there ever a more 1890s-sounding character than Theodore Wratislaw? His surname sounds like a Beardsley drawing:...
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Review: Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International...
James A. Ganz, ed, Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exhibition, Berkeley, CA: University of California, 2015, ISBN 978-0-520-28718-1, 400pp. In 1915, San Francisco...
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Review: Literature of the 1900s by Jonathan Wild
Review of Jonathan Wild, Literature of the 1900s: The Great Edwardian Emporium (Edinburgh University Press, 224 pp., £75) Shopping, like much else, became recognisably modern in the first decade of...
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