Article Martin A. Danahay and Ann F. Howey (eds.). 2024. Neo-Victorianism and Medievalism: Re-appropriating the Victorian and Medieval Pasts. Neo-Victorian Series. Leiden/Boston: Brill, viii + 323 pp., 5 illustr., € 105.00. was published on December 1, 2025 in the journal Anglia (volume 143, issue 4).

Article Naomi Levine. 2024. The Burden of Rhyme: Victorian Poetry, Formalism, and the Feeling of Literary History. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 255 pp., 3 halftones, $27.50. was published on September 1, 2025 in the journal Anglia (volume 143, issue 3).

Abstract This article considers the notion of decadence in relation to Vernon Lee’s concept of history, looking particularly at her late play, Satan the Waster (1920). In the play, Lee offers a portrayal of decadence not – as other thinkers concerned with history and decay such as Oswald Spengler or Max Nordau would have it – as destruction and collapse, but rather as potential. For Lee, decadence is seen as a moment in which old ideas, systems, or institutions fall apart and come to be replaced by something new. Instead of offering a lament, however, she offers decadence as a process of potential opening up of opportunities for change for the better. This is an ethical perspective on decadence. In this article, I trace this idea from Lee’s early aestheticist writings to the late, overtly political drama of Satan the Waster .

Article Pamela Buck. 2024. Objects of Liberty: British Women Writers and Revolutionary Souvenirs. Early Modern Feminisms. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 202 pp., 13 colour and 13 b-w images, $ 150.00. was published on September 1, 2025 in the journal Anglia (volume 143, issue 3).

Article Susan E. Kirtley. 2021. Typical Girls: The Rhetoric of Womanhood in Comic Strips. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 268 pp., 59 illustrations, $134.95. was published on April 1, 2025 in the journal Anglia (volume 143, issue 1).

Abstract This article develops a notion of “serial prefiguration” that connects the evolutionary dynamics of popular serial narrative with a multi-level understanding of circulation as a) the extent to and means through which certain stories reach large audiences and foster reading communities that verbalize their responses to these stories; b) the travelling of narrative forms, content, and concepts of superhero crimefighting through genre narratives that transcend regional and national borders; c) the constitution of networks of print cultures through which these narratives create a “circulatory matrix” (Gaonkar and Povinelli 2003) or “cultures of circulation” (Lee and LiPuma 2002) that function as the foundation for modern entertainment and have delivered the blueprint for popular serial storytelling since the mid-nineteenth century.

Article Arnaud Schmitt (ed.). 2024. Hybridity in Life Writing: Combining Text and Images. Palgrave Studies in Life Writing. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, xii + 296 pp., 20 figures, CHF 177.00. was published on April 1, 2025 in the journal Anglia (volume 143, issue 1).

Article Annette Kern-Stähler and Elizabeth Robertson (eds.). 2023. Literature and the Senses. Oxford: Oxford University Press, xix + 544 pp., 20 illustr., $ 155. was published on April 1, 2025 in the journal Anglia (volume 143, issue 1).