In our August 2023 special issue, Matthew Creasy contemplates how George Moore uses translation to construct an “elusive and slippery narrative identity” in _Confessions of a Young Man_: doi.org/10.1086/725085

Find out how Greek literature was impacted by the European Decadent movement in this latest article from Modern Philology. Read “The Bee and the Butterfly: Translation Practices in Modern Greek Decadence” here: ow.ly/99kZ50Pwb8t Modern Philology

How and why did French translator Georges Hérelle encourage Italian writers Matilde Serao and Grazia Deledda to “minimize their cosmopolitan ambitions”? See Elisa Segnini’s essay in our August 2023 special issue on translation and decadence: doi.org/10.1086/725401

María Del Pilar Blanco explores how translations by Pedro Henríquez Ureña and José Juan Tablada in _Revista Moderna de México_ helped expose Hispanic readers to the ideas and authors associated with the European decadent movement: doi.org/10.1086/725113

In our August 2023 issue, guest editor Stefano Evangelista analyzes how the translations in Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese essays and stories collection _Shadowings_ “drew on ideas and literary techniques associated with decadent literature in the West”: doi.org/10.1086/725415

"The absorption of new reading practices developed by humanist intellectuals had profound effects on religious reform, sparking a transition from . . . sacramental to textual forms of participation." Review by Sam Fallon: doi.org/10.1086/726068

Brian McGrath’s _Look Round for Poetry: Untimely Romanticisms_ “is a glorious call to read subversively and experimentally.” Review by Richard C. Sha: doi.org/10.1086/726215

What role did “albo-mania” play in the Romantic era’s literary culture? Betty A. Schellenberg reviews Samantha Matthews’s monograph: doi.org/10.1086/726134

Here's the cover of my forthcoming *Sailing without Ahab* - plus some thoughts about this strange project and its origins - stevementz.com/sailing-withou…

Got bibliomania? “However symptomatic it might feel, the impulse to own Book Madness will offer any library more than mere stage dressing.” Nicholas D. Nace reviews Denise Gigante’s latest: doi.org/10.1086/726240

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_Crusoe's Books_ "proves that recovering the experiences of readers can be done and done well"--Troy J. Bassett reviews Bill Bell's latest: doi.org/10.1086/726161

Our November 2023 issue is now online!

"_Against the Uprooted Word_ is an original, incisive study, a perceptive weaving together of various threads in recent Romanticist scholarship"--Jacob Risinger reviews Tobias Wolff: doi.org/10.1086/727355

Wondering how the concept of "intelligence as a quantifiable capacity" played out in the bildungsroman in 19th-c. England? Aleksandar Stević reviews Sara Lyons's latest: doi.org/10.1086/727794

Honored to have been awarded the Hoffman Prize for a Distinguished Publication on Christopher #Marlowe for work on #sexuality & futurity in Edward II & Richard II. Esp. meaningful that the prize is administered by Marlowe's own school, The King's School. tinyurl.com/mrtdew9c

Shari Hodges Holt praises Ushashi Dasgupta's _Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction_ as "combining theoretical studies of space and material culture with astute literary criticism." Read the review: doi.org/10.1086/728529

Brenda M. Hosington characterizes Hilary Brown’s _Women and Early Modern Cultures of Translation_ as a “bold discussion of the early modern female translator and...using gender as a determining factor in examining her place in the history of translation”--doi.org/10.1086/728472