Essay-Reviews and Reviews

The Reviewer's Corner of Ellen's website includes a selection of her published reviews and essay-reviews on literature. Although the pieces are subdivided chronologically, the perspective she necessarily takes is that of a reader coming to terms with different aspects of modern and post- modern critical thought as they reveal themselves in different critical-scholarly treatments of literature, film, and the visual arts.

Nineteenth Century Literature and Film Adaptations

• A Review of Child Murder & British Culture: 1720-1900 by Josephine McDonagh. Cambridge University Press, 2003, and Fatal Women of Romanticism by Adriana Craciun. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Keats-Shelley Journal, LIV, 2005: 199-202.
• "Taking Sides", Studies in the Novel, 36: 2 (2004): 251-69. An Invited Essay-Review of Leah Price's The Anthology and the Rise of the Novel, Neil McCaw, George Eliot and Victorian Historiography: Imagining the National Past, and Barbara Tepa Lupack, ed. Nineteenth-Century Women at the Movies: Adapting Classic Women's Fiction to Film.

Eighteenth Century Literature

• A Review of Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The 'Ingenious Quaker and Her Connections by Judith Jennings. Hampshire: Ashgate, 2006. This review appeared in The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, N.S. 22:3 (September 2008):21-25.
• A Review of Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre by Paula R. Backscheider. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 2005. This review appeared in The Eighteenth Century Intelligencer, N.S. 20:3 (September 2006:)42-46.
• A Review of The Image of Georgian Bath, 1700-200: Towns, Heritage, and History by Peter Borsay. Oxford University Press, 2000. The Scriblerian, 37:1 (Autumn 2004): 89-90.
• A Review of Textual Promiscuities: Eighteenth-Century Critical Rewriting by Antoinette Marie Sol. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press and London: Associated University Presses, 2002. This review appeared in Burney Letter, 10:2 (Fall 2004): 13-14.
• A Review of Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s: Romantic Belongings by Angela Keane. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. This review appears in ECCB: The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, 2004)
• A Review of Catharine Trotter: An early modern writer in the vanguard of feminism by Anne Kelley. Hampshire, England: Ashgate, 2002. This review appearsin Scriblerian, 36:1 (August 2003): 58-59.
• A Review-Essay of Eighteenth-Century Women: Studies in Their Lives, Work, and Culture. Linda V. Troost, Editor. Volume 2. New York: AMS Press, 2002. Pp. x + 351; illustrated. This review appeared in The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-central/American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, N. S. 17/2 (2003), 24-31.
• A Review of The Anne Finch Wellesley Manuscript Poems, edd. Barbara McGovern and Charles Hinnant. Athens and London: The University of Georgia Press, 1998. Pp. l + 205. A somewhat abbreviated version of this appears in The Scriblerian 33/2 (2001), pp 203-4. I have reprinted this longer one in order to place into circulation more information on the individuals mentioned in, and immediate circumstances surrounding, the poems in question.
• A Review of The Politics of Motherhood: British writing and culture, 1680-1760 by Toni Bowers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xvi + 262; illustrated. This review appeared in The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-central/American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, N.S. 10 (Sept. 1996), 19-21.

Jane Austen

• A Review of A Critical Companion to Jane Austen: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work by William Baker. New York: Facts on File, Infobase Publishing, 2008. Appeared in The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer, NS, 22:2 (2008):43-46.
• A Review of In a Fast Coach with a Pretty Women: Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson by Gloria Sybil Gross. AMS Studies in the Eighteenth Century No. 40. New York: AMS Pr, 2002. Pp. 208. ISBN 0-404-63540-7. $62.50. For The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-central/American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, N.S. 18:3 (Sept 2004): 30-32.
• A Review of Reshaping the Sexes in Sense and Sensibility by Moreland Perkins. Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, 1998. Pp. xi + 208. $24.50. This is an expanded version of the review which appeared in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 99:1 (January 2000): 141-43.
• An Essay-Review of Topic: A Journal of the Liberal Arts: Jane Austen Goes to the Movies, No. 48, Washington and Jefferson College (November 1997). This is a somewhat modified version of the review-essay which appeared in The East-Central Intelligencer: The Newsletter of the East-Central/American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, N.S. 12 (Sept. 1998), 12-17. I have since writing that essay done more research whose results I now include in the form of small revisions of the text, added notes, and a select bibliography.

Renaissance Literature

• A review of Vittoria Colonna and the Spiritual Poetics of the Italian Reformation by Abigail Brundin. Hampshire: Ashdate, 2008. For Renaissance Quarterly, intended for fall 2008 issue.
• A Review of Autobiography and Gender in Early Modern Literature: Reading Women's Lives, 1600-1680 by Sharon Cadman Seelig, Renaissance Quarterly, 60:2 (2007):675-677.
• A Review of Women's Letters Across Europe, 1400-1700. London: Ashgate, 2004, edd., introd. Jane Couchman and Ann Crabb. A shorter version of this review appears in Renaissance Quarterly, 49:3 (Fall 2006):930-32.
• An Essay-Review of Gabriella Zarri's Per lettera: Le scrittura epistolare femminile tra archivio e tipografia secoli XV - XVII. A slightly different version of this essay appears in The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 33/2 (2001), 632-636.
• A Review of Proportional Form in the Sonnets of the Sidney Circle: Loving in Truth by Tom W. N. Parker. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. 259 pp. HB. This review appeared in The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 31/1 (2000), 197- 200.
• A Review of The English Renaissance: Identity and Representation in Elizabethan England by Alistair Fox. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. viii + 240 pp. $64.95 HB. $26.95 PB. This review appeared in The Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies, 29 (1998), 511-14.