https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50063 Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:40:03 GMT 2026-04-11T13:40:03Z https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50744 Review of Riya Das’s Women at Odds: Indifference, Antagonism, and Progress in Late Victorian Literature This cogent work, "highly recommended" by CHOICE, is yet another example of the fine new scholarship that, fortunately, often targets George Eliot's work. One might occasionally disagree with the author, but even sceptical engagement in this case enables greater clarity in one's own thinking. https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50744 https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50743 Review of Priyanka Anne Jacob’s The Victorian Novel on File, Secrets, Hoards, and Information Storage The British Library began the nineteenth century with 48,000 volumes and ended it with two million. Add to their extraordinary mound of paper the holdings of other libraries, the Public Records Office, newspapers and magazines, the records of politics, commerce, and empire, etcetera... https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50743 https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50742 Review of Juliette Atkinson’s George Eliot: A Very Short Introduction This latest addition to the Oxford VSI series is a fresh and lively introduction to George Eliot's life and work which will appeal as much to those who are familiar with the subject as to those who are approaching the novelist for the first time. https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50742 https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50741 Review of Juliette Atkinson and Elisha Cohn’s The Oxford Handbook of George Eliot This is a monumental achievement and an exceptional addition to George Eliot studies. Statistics alone are impressive. For a start the book weighs in just under two kilograms; nearly 900 pages all up. It contains fifty-two essays by fifty-five authors from six countries, all of them bar one in academic positions. https://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50741