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an often fascinating and insightful tour ... [Siegel's] more recent excavations have uncovered much that is new and fascinating ... it also offers rich rewards * Elizabeth Helsinger, Review 19 * Material Inspirations is an admirable, learned study, and a major achievement in assessing the force and scope of nineteenth-century art history. * Francis O'Gorman, Review of English Studies *

Material Inspirations is an admirable, learned study, and a major achievement in assessing the force and scope of nineteenth-century art history. * Francis O'Gorman, Review of English Studies *

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Jonah Siegel is Distinguished Professor of English and Co-Director of the British Studies Center at Rutgers University. He has been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center, and a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome, as well as a recipient of a Frederick Burkhardt Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. Aside from numerous articles on literature and the fine arts, he is the author of two books, Desire & Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art (2000; Rudikoff Prize winner, 2000), and Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition (2005), and the editor of The Emergence of the Modern Museum: An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources (2007).

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