by Speak Digital | Sep 20, 2019 | Reviews
Natalie Reeve In 1846, Elizabeth Barrett wandered through Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, reading the memorials to writers of past ages. “We should not dare, nowadays,” she mused incredulously, “to put such words on a poet’s monument” (Stack 158). What her...
by Speak Digital | Sep 20, 2019 | Reviews
Heidi Logan Alex Tankard’s Tuberculosis and Disabled Identity in Nineteenth Century Literature: Invalid Lives dispels myths about the representation of ‘consumption’ in nineteenth-century literature, delivering in-depth analyses of several novels and an overview of...
by Speak Digital | Sep 20, 2019 | Reviews
Jessica Allsop Sabina Fazli’s Sensational Things: Souvenirs, Keepsakes, and Mementos in Wilkie Collins’s Fiction draws on a wealth of scholarship in order to address the particular function of material culture in some of Wilkie Collins’s lesser-known and -treated...
by Speak Digital | Sep 20, 2019 | Reviews
Zan Cammack There has recently been a steady output of works examining the Victorian obsession with collecting things, setting up what Deborah Cohen describes as “household gods” in her work of the same name. And yet, Kevin Morrison’s work, Victorian Liberalism and...
by Speak Digital | Sep 20, 2019 | Reviews
Abigail Boucher Martin Heidegger made the famous mid-century distinction between objects and things: an object becomes a thing when the object breaks down or can otherwise no longer serve its intended function. In recent years, as we reappraise the very assumptions...
