2010s

Vol. 21 No. 3 p. 60-93 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Slow Print: Literary Radicalism and Late Victorian Print Culture (Ruth Kinna) 60
Amelia Yeates and Serena Trowbridge, eds. Pre-Raphaelite Masculinities: Constructions of Masculinity in Art and Literature (Phillippa Bennett) 64
Michelle Weinroth and Paul Leduc Browne, eds. To Build a Showy Isle of Bliss: William Morris’s Radicalism and the Embodiment of Dreams (Peter Faulkner) 68
Peter Cormak, Arts & Crafts Stained Glass (Jim Cheshire) 73
Kristin Ross, Communal Luxury: The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune (Owen Holland) 77
Yoshiiko Seki, The Rhetoric of Retelling Old Romances: Medievalist Poetry by Alfred Tennyson and William Morris (John Purkis) 82
Joscelyn Godwin, ed. The Starlight Years: Love & War at Kelmscott Manor 1940-48 (Kathy Haslam) 85
Steven Parissien, The Comfort of the Past: Building in Oxford and Beyond 1815-2015 (Peter Faulkner) 87

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Vol. 21 No. 2 p. 076-116 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Clive Wilmer, ed, William Morris: The Odes of Horace (Facsimile edition) (Peter Faulkner) 76
Fiona MacCarthy, Anarchy and Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy 1860 – 1960 (John Purkis) 78
Elizabeth Wilhide, William Morris: Décor & Design (Fiona Rose) 81
Wendy Parkins, Jane Morris: the Burden of History (Frank Sharp) 84
Mark Frost, The Lost Companions and John Ruskin’s Guild of St George: A Revisionary History (Clive Wilmer) 87
Mercia McDermott, Lone Red Poppy (Helena Nielsen) 91
Graham Peel, Alec Miller: Carver, Guildsman, Sculptor (Diana Andrews) 94
Joanne Parker & Corinna Wagner, Art & Soul: Victorians and The Gothic (Gabriel Schenk) 97
Michael Hall, George Frederick Bodley and the Late Gothic Revival in Britain and America (Peter Faulkner) 100
Cal Winslow, ed, E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics (Martin Crick) 105
Alex Prichard, Ruth Kinna, Saku Pinta & David Berry, eds, Libertarian Socialism: Politics in Black and Red (David Goodway) 109
Robert Hewison, Cultural capital; the rise and fall of creative Britain. (Martin Stott) 114

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Vol. 21 No. 1 p. 70-93 Reviews

Edited by Peter Faulkner:
Rachel Holmes, Eleanor Marx: A Life (John Purkis) 70
Christopher Newall, with contributions by Christopher Baker, Ian Jeffrey and Conal Shields, John Ruskin: Artist and Observer (Leopold Kowolik) 72
Keith Hanley & Brian Maidment, eds, Persistent Ruskin: Studies in Influence, Assimilation and Effect (Jim Chesire) 76
Yisrael Levin, Swinburne’s Apollo: Myth, Faith and Victorian Spirituality (Richard Frith) 79
Oliver S. Heal, Sir Ambrose Heal and the Heal Cabinet Factory, 1897-1939 (Peter Faulkner) 82
Virginia Chieffo Raguin, Stained Glass Radiant Art (Jim Chesire) 85
Roger Fieldhouse & Richard Taylor, eds, E.P. Thompson and English Radicalism (Martin Crick) 86
Ruth Levitas, Utopia as Method (Ruth Kinna) 90

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