‘Anyone who has read the Reception volumes will be aware
of the rigorous interrogation of issues of nationality, Europeanism and literary
cosmopolitanism that have added in such valuable ways to our understanding of a
range of British writers within a wider international context.’ Byron Journal, 32.2 (December 2008)
Award
Elma Dangerfield Award for the best book
on Byron in 2005-06 to Prof. Richard Cardwell, editor of
The Reception of Byron in Europe.
Click here
for information about the award.
Volume
reviews
The
Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe
·
Matthew Sturgis, ‘Oscar
Wilde in Europe: For most of Europe, it was Wilde’s fall from grace, not his work, that
first carried him into the public consciousness’, The Times Literary Supplement, 17 November 2010, p. 23.
·
Nikolai
Endres (Western Kentucky University) Victorians: A Journal of Culture and
Literature, 119 (Spring 2011):
136-42.
·
Michael
Seeney (Oscar Wilde Society) The Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies,
39 (July 2011): 121-23.
The
Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe
·
Jan Baedke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) Journal
of General Philosophical Science, 42 (2011): 411–13. Click here
to read the review.
·
Year’s Work in English Studies, 89.1 (January 2010):
‘All in all, Engels and
Glick’s volumes are important additions to our study of Darwin’s reception.’
·
Leandro Sequeiros (University of Granada), Pensamiento: Revista de
investigación e Información filosófica, 66.24
(2010): 889.
‘About forty experts
in the history of Darwin’s thought (including some Spaniards) have contributed
to the publication of this carefully prepared volume, which discusses the
controversies that have surrounded the development of Darwin’s ideas in Europe.
The book is dedicated to discussing the development of the study of these ideas
in Europe, which of course originated in Great Britain. These themes have been
studied in particular specialised ways before but never within the contents and
scope of one book. […]
The book opens
with a detailed chart of the reception and the acceptance of Darwin in Europe.
The two volumes however contain 29 extensive articles, representing each of the
countries concerned. For Spain, we would draw particular attention to the
chapters on Darwin and Palaeontology in Spain, Darwin in Catalonia, Teilhard de Chardin and the
influence of his synthesis in Spain. In this latter chapter, there is fully
described the growth of the influence of Teilhard’s
ideas in Spain, especially on the scholar Crusafont
and other Christian evolutionists who explore the intersection between faith,
philosophy and science.
Outstanding is one chapter of great depth and originality: the Darwinist
philosophical revolution, written by Eve Marie Engels. At the end of each chapter
is an extensive bibliography and the work concludes with really detailed
indices.’
Click here to read the
review in the original Spanish.
·
Kostas
Kampourakis (Geitonas
School, Athens) Science & Education,
published online 20 October 2010. Click here
to read the review.
·
Michiko
Seimiya (Japan Women’s University) Web英語青年: The Rising
Generation, 7 (July
2009): 58-61. Click here
to read the review in Japanese.
·
Uwe
Hoßfeld (University of Jena) ‘Quo vadis
“Darwin-Industry”?: Tendenzen
und Trends im Darwin-Jahr
2009’, Archiv für das Studium der neueren
Sprachen und Literaturen,
246.2 (2009), pp. 330-44 (340).
The
Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe
·
Rolf
Lessenich (University of Bonn) Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen
und Literaturen, 249.1 (2011): 168-70.
‘[T]his
new publication in the meritorious series is to be highly welcomed in the field
both of Romantic studies and comparative literature. On the approved model of the
earlier volumes, it sets out with a long ‘Timeline’ (pp. XXVII–LXVII), in which
prints, editions, translations, criticism, and other forms of the author’s
reception are carefully charted year by year from 1814 (when August von
Kotzebue was supposedly in possession of a copy of Queen Mab
in Germany) to 2008 (when Bernard-Jean Ramadier
published a new biography of Shelley in France). The
following ‘Introduction’ (pp. 1–8), together with the previous
‘Acknowledgements’, attest to the enormous amount of bibliographical and
biographical work invested here.’
·
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 47.1 (January 2011): 115.
·
Forum for Modern Language Studies, 2011, 47 (1): 115; 1st
published online 13 January
2010. Click here
to read the review.
·
Agustín
Coletes Blanco (University of Oviedo) Atlantis, 32.2 (December
2010): 131-36. Click here
to access the review.
·
Guy Cuthbertson (University of St Andrews) The Keats-Shelley Review,
24 (2010): 98-99.
·
Ross
Wilson (University of East Anglia) Keats-Shelley Journal, 59 (2010):
148-50.
·
Kelvin
Everest (University of Liverpool) The
British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review, 37 (December
2010): 52-55.
·
‘Literature: 1780-1830: The Romantic Period’,
Year’s Work in English Studies, 89.1
(January 2010): 662-63.
‘[A] volume that excitingly probes Shelley’s reception in
a dizzyingly broad range of languages, from Catalan and Greek to Bulgarian and
Romanian.’
·
Benjamin
Colbert (University of Wolverhampton) The Keats-Shelley
Review, 23 (2009): 99-104 (103-04).
·
Reference and Research Book News, February 2009. PR5431, p. 296.
The Reception of S. T. Coleridge in Europe
·
Florian Bissig (University of Zurich) Romanticism, 16.3 (October 2010): 327-29.
·
Donald Mackenzie (University of Glasgow) Translation and Literature, 18.2 (Sept.
2009): 256-60;
‘Elinor Shaffer’s lucid introductory overview of
the contents of the entire volume is a fine guide […] admirably well-defined
narrative […] Coleridge as theorist of the imagination, Coleridge the modernist
are marshalled into a ten-page account with a
documentation unfailingly deft and enlightening.’
Click here
to read the review.
·
Ann C. Colley, ‘Recent Studies in the Nineteenth
Century’, SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900,
48.4 (Autumn 2008): 935-1009 ().
·
‘The Year’s Work in
Romanticism Studies’, Prism(s): Essays in Romanticism, 16 (2008):
115-122 (120);
‘The
newest volume in the Athlone Critical Traditions
Series is one of the best. The Reception of S. T. Coleridge
in Europe (London:
Continuum, 2007), edited by Elinor Shaffer and Edoardo Zuccato, illustrates why
the notions of influence and reception must be regarded as key to any real view
of literary history. Avoiding undue methodological complications, Shaffer and Zuccato account for vaguely misunderstood relationships,
view anew problems of incidence and causality, and deal with a range of
intermediate correlations for which there is enough evidence to make a case.
Understanding implicitly that reception and influence can be neither
qualitatively nor quantitatively measured, the book manages to set up for the
reader a dialectic of Coleridgean mirages in European
literature that range from his own time to post-1945 German and Italian
poetry.’
Click here to read the
full review.
The
Reception of Jane Austen in Europe
·
Newsletter
of the Jane Austen Society,
30 (March 2008).
·
Elisabeth Lenckos
(University of Chicago) ‘The Global Jane Austen’, JASNA News, Winter 2008, 24. Click here to read the review.
·
James Rovira (Tiffin
University, OH) ‘Receiving Austen and Scott’, College
Literature, 36.2 (Spring 2009): 141-50.
·
Nick
Turner (Manchester Metropolitan University) Transnational
Literature [e-journal], 1.2 (May 2009): 1-2. Click here
to read the review.
The Reception of Sir Walter
Scott in Europe
·
J.C. [James Campbell], NB: ‘Coeur de Midlothian’, TLS, 10 August 2007, p. 32. Click here to read
the review.
·
Gerry
Carruthers (University of Glasgow), ‘How to find Scottland?’, The Drouth, 25 (autumn 2007).
‘A vastly rich portrait […]. Pittock
obliterates previous, prissy critical period-boundaries.’
·
M.
E. Burnstein (SUNY
College at Brockport) Choice:
Current Reviews for Academic Libraries [American Library Association], 45 (April 2008): 4239.
‘Specialists
in the history of the novel or 19th -century fiction will want this book.
Recommended’
·
Reference and Research Book News, May 2008. PR5341, p. 338.
·
Susan
Oliver (University of Salford) The Byron Journal, 36.2 (2008): 177-79.
‘A fascinating and compelling book […]
inspired […] There is so much that could be said about this volume […]. Scott
scholars, readers interested in reception studies, the history of the book or
literature in translation should find it compulsive reading.’
·
Donald
Mackenzie (University of Glasgow) Translation
& Literature, 17.2 (Sept. 2008): 251-57.
‘A valuable resource […]. An indispensable foundation for future
work [...] panoramic sweep and crisp detail’
Click here to
read the review.
·
Ann Rigney (Utrecht University) Comparative Critical Studies, 6.2
(June 2009): 271-75. Click here to
read the review.
The Reception of D. H. Lawrence in Europe
·
Takeo Iida (Kurume University, Japan) Archiv für das Studium der neueren
Sprachen und Literaturen,
245.1 (2008): 152-54.
·
Karl Orend (Alyscamps
Press, Paris), ‘Lust for Life’, TLS,
17 July 2009, p. 13. Click here
to access the review.
The Reception of Henry James in Europe
·
Hubert Teyssandier (Université de
Paris III) Revue Française d'Études
Américaines (RFEA), 116.2 (2008).
·
Maria
Pirgerou (University of Athens) European Association for American Studies
(EAAS), 2008.
Click here
to read this online review.
·
Greg
Zacharias (Creighton University, NE) The Henry James Review, 29.3 (Fall 2008): 301-04.
‘[T]his volume adds significant detail to the “broad
transnational picture” (260) of Henry James in the past and suggests some
outlines to come. It also helps to explain why some of the best work in James
studies is now being done by scholars outside the United States, Canada, and
the U.K. Annick Duperray
brings together essays from seventeen established and younger Jamesians from across Europe, who take up many crucial
aspects of the reception of James’s…’
For
those with Project MUSE access the review can be found at:
http://muse.jhu.edu/loginuri=/journals/henry_james_review/v029/29.3.zacharias.html
·
Françoise
Clary, Thomas Austenfeld, M. Giulia Fabi, Antonio C. Márquez, and Lene M. Johannessen, ‘Scholarship in Languages Other Than English’,
American
Literary Scholarship: An Annual 2007,
ed. Gary Scharnhorst, no. 1, pt II (2009): 465-519 (466-67).
The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe
·
Jacqueline Genet (Université de Caen) Études anglaises, 60.4 (Oct.-Dec. 2007): 519-22.
·
Elizabeth Muller (Université de Nantes) Études irlandaises, 32.2 (Autumn 2007): 198-99.
·
Ciaran Murray (University of Chuo, Japan) Journal of Irish Studies, 22 (2007):
124-26.
·
Eve Patten (Trinity College, Dublin) Irish Studies Review, 11.3 (August 2007): 393-95.
·
Wolfgang Wicht (Universität Potsdam) Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen
und Literaturen, 245.1 (2008), 150-52.
·
Reference and Research Book News, May 2008. PR5907, p. 338.
·
Adrian
Frazier (National University of Ireland, Galway) ‘Yeats in Europe’, English Literature in Transition, 51.3
(2008): 343-45.
·
Russell McDonald (Kalamazoo College) Comparative
Literature Studies, 45.3 (2008):
415-17.
·
Justin Quinn (Charles University, Prague) Year’s Work in English Studies, 87 (2008): 951-52.
·
Mark
Nixon (University of Reading) Modern
Language Review, 104.4 (Oct. 2009): 1128-29.
Review of Yeats & Wells volumes
Margaret Russett (University of Southern California) ‘Recent
Studies in the Nineteenth Century’, SEL
Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, 47.4 (Autumn
2007): 943-82 (960-61).
The Reception of David Hume
in Europe
·
Willem Lemmens (University of
Antwerp/UFSIA) Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie, 2007, 766.
·
Eléonore Le Jallé (Université
de Lille III) Archives
de philosophie: Recherches et documentation, 70.1 (Spring 2007): 123-25.
·
Alix Cohen (Newnham, Cambridge) ‘The Making of
a Philosophical Classic: The Reception of David Hume in Europe’, in Emilio Mazza and Emanuele Ronchetti (eds)
(2007) New Essays on David Hume, Milan: FrancoAngeli,
pp. 457-68. Click
here
to read an extract.
·
Pascal Taranto
(Université de Nantes) Revue philosophique de la France et de l'Étranger, 133 (2008).
The Reception of Jonathan
Swift in Europe
·
Robert Mahony (Catholic University of
America) Irish Studies Review, 14.2
(May 2006): 287-88.
·
Adam
Rounce (University of Keele)
SHARP News, 15.2-3
(Spring & Summer 2006): 22. [Quarterly
newsletter of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and
Publishing]
·
Ralf Haekel (Humboldt University, Berlin) Das Achtzehnte Jahrhundert, 31.1 (2007):
131-33.
·
Fernando Galván (Universidad de Alcalá) ‘The Eighteenth-century English Novel and Its
Spanish Heritage and Reception’, Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 56 (April 2008): 123-43.
·
Manuel Schonhorn (Southern
Illinois University) The Scriblerian,
41: 1 (August 2008) 46-47.
The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe
·
David Carrier (Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland Institute of Art) The Art Bulletin, September 2005, 533-324.
Click here to read the
review.
·
Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary, University of London) The Pater Newsletter, 51 (Fall 2006): 3-12.
·
J. B. Bullen (University of Reading) Art History, 30.2 (2007): 293-96.
The Reception of Ossian in Europe
·
Mel Kersey (University of Otago) Eighteenth-Century
Scotland, July 2005, 6-7.
·
Sebastian Mitchell (University of Birmingham) Translation and
Literature, Autumn 2005, 255-62.
·
Lesa Ní Mhunghaile (Mary Immaculate,
Limerick) ‘Ossian and Other
Scottish Connections and Canons’, Eighteenth-Century
Ireland / Iris an dá chultúr, 20 (2005): 169-72. Click here
to read the review.
·
Landeg White (Portuguese Open University) ‘In
Bonaparte’s backpack’, TLS, 14 April 2006, p. 24.
·
Francis Lamport (Worcester College,
Oxford) Comparative Critical Studies,
3.3 (2006): 402-04. DOI 10.3366/ccs.2006.3.3.402. Click here to
read the review.
·
Graeme
Morton (University of Guelph, Ontario) International Review of Scottish Studies,
31 (Fall 2006): 127-30. Click here
to read the review.
·
Murray Pittock (University of
Manchester), Modern Language Review, 4 (October 2006), 1078.
The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe
·
Annie Escuret (Université de
Montpellier 3) Cahiers victoriens & édouardiens,
62 (October 2005): 215-16.
·
Kritikon Litterarum, 33 (2006): 68-80 (78-80).
·
Sylvia Hardy (University of Northampton) The Wellsian, 30 (2007): 59-63. Click here read
the review.
·
Christine Huguet (Université de Lille
III) Etudes Anglaises,
60.2 (2007): 246-47. Click
here
to read an extract.
·
Andy
Sawyer (University of Liverpool) Foundation,
102 (Spring 2008): 87-91. Click here to read
an extract.
·
Margaret Russett,
‘Recent Studies in
the Nineteenth Century’, SEL Studies
in English Literature 1500-1900,
47.4 (Autumn 2007): 943-82(960-61).
The Reception of Byron in Europe
·
Alan Rawes (University of Manchester) BARS
(British Association for Romantic Studies) Bulletin and Review, 29 (March
2006): 28-29.
·
Caroline Franklin (University of Wales Swansea) The Byron Journal, 35.2 (2007): 175-78.
·
John Clubbe (University of Kentucky) The Wordsworth Circle, 40.4 (Summer 2009): 151-53.
Review of Sterne, Byron and Swift volumes
David Nokes
(King’s College London) ‘Continental Notes’, TLS, 3 March 2006, p.
26. Click here
to access the review.
The Reception of James Joyce in Europe
·
Justin Beplate (Université
Nancy 2) ‘No mistakes: Are Joyce’s failings merely failures of discovery?’, TLS, 29 April 2005, cover image with title
‘Untouchable Joyce’ and pp. 3-4. Click here
to access the review.
·
John Nash (Trinity College Dublin) Review of English Studies, 56.226 (September 2005): 689-91.
·
Wanda Balzano (Wake Forest University) The European English Messenger, 15.2
(Autumn 2006): 83-88.
·
M. Teresa Caneda
Cabrera (University of Vigo) ‘The Sameness of Difference: Joyce’s
Kaleidoscopic Odyssey(s) throughout Europe’, James Joyce Quarterly, 44.1
(Fall 2006): 139-50. Click here to read the review.
·
Andrew Gibson (Royal Holloway, University of London) Comparative Critical Studies, 3.3
(2006): 393-401. DOI 10.3366/ccs.2006.3.3.393. Click here to
read the review.
·
Fritz
Senn (James
Joyce Foundation, Zürich) ‘The European Diffusion of Joyce’, James Joyce Broadsheet, 76 (Feb. 2007):
1.
·
Katherine Mullin (University of Leeds) Journal of European Studies, 37.1 (2007): 76-80.
An
on-line copy can be accessed
here.
The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe
·
Ian Campbell Ross (Trinity College Dublin)
The Shandean,
16 (2005), 154-58.
Click here
to read an extract.
·
Melvyn
New (University of Florida) The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, 38.2
(Spring 2006): 295-98.
·
George S. Rousseau (Magdalen, Oxford)
‘But Tristram is an English boy… or is he? Laurence Sterne’s Reception in Europe – a
Review Essay’, arcadia, 41.2
(2006): 488-96.
·
Gabriella Vöő (University of Pécs, Hungary) Focus: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies (Pécs), Autumn 2006: 158-60.
·
Emily
Finer (Clare College, Cambridge) Journal
of European Studies, 37.1 (2007): 74-76.
Click
here to read the review.
The Reception of
Virginia Woolf in Europe
·
Jim Stewart (University of Dundee) ‘Orlando to Catalonia’, Times Literary Supplement (TLS),
30 May 2003, p. 22. Click here
to access the review.
·
Liedeke
Plate (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
The Comparatist,
27 (2003): 180-81.
Click here
to read an excerpt.
·
Helen
Southworth (University of Oregon) Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, 23.1 (Spring 2004): 141-42. Click here
to read an excerpt.
·
Antonio Ballesteros
(Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha)
Atlantis Journal, September 2004, pp. 127-35. Click to read an extract
or the full
review.
·
Mark Hussey (Pace University, NYC) Woolf
Studies Annual, 10 (2004).
·
Gillian Beer (Clare Hall, Cambridge) Comparative Critical
Studies, 2.2 (2005): 299-301.
Click here to
read the review.
·
Clare Hanson
(Loughborough) Modern
Language Review, 100.4 (October
2005): 1103-04. This review is available via JSTOR.
·
Trudi Tate (Clare Hall, Cambridge) ‘Afterlives of
Virginia Woolf’, Quadrant [Sydney],
L. 1-2 (January-February 2006): 120-21. Click here
to read an excerpt.