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'Wheatley writes well and knows the era and its major (and minor) figures... [Her book] evoke[s] a time when people cared enough about literature and prose styles to get down and dirty with them.' Critical Margins 'In a book that is enjoyable as well as persuasive, Wheatley presents the game of literary feuding as an engrossing spectator sport. [This monograph] is as constructive and passionate as its inspiring feuds. As in Shelley and his Readers, Wheatley demonstrates that literary conflict can differ from other kinds in facilitating creativity.' NBOL 19 'By bringing the reviewer and the poet into the same orbit, Wheatley reveals the remarkable and unexpected ways in which essayists such as Barrow simultaneously waged a long campaign of personal abuse and co-operated with some of canonical Romanticism's central preoccupations. In a book which comments illuminatingly on several contentious aspects of the early nineteenth-century British periodical press, Romantic Feuds demonstrates above all the many and often conflicted ways in which Romantic writers needed reviewers, and vice versa.' Wordsworth Circle '...the scholarship throughout is scrupulous and exhaustive and this is a significant and potentially transformative contribution to an increasingly important area of literary studies.' Review of English Studies 'Wheatley [has] patience and clarity in tracing the twists and turns of these complex and often obscure exchanges. That she has managed to do this in brisk, engaging prose - avoiding the longueurs of summary that plague the study of periodicals - will be welcome to any reader, and should stand as an example to anyone writing on the subject.' European Romantic Review 'Romantic Feuds excels in bringing out the comedy and the contradictions in the battles which it examines. Wheatley's close readings are informed and subtle, employing detailed knowledge to revivify the pleasures of these clashes. ...[This book] make[s] it clear that well-executed new approaches still have the potential to recover a great deal that is interesting, pertinent and valuable.' BARS Review 'Wheatley opens an interesting perspective on the interpenetration of distinct historical moments, challenging habitual modes of periodization. ... a fascinating and helpful guide to a fundamental aspect of Romantic literary culture.' Keats-Shelley Journal

'Wheatley writes well and knows the era and its major (and minor) figures... [Her book] evoke[s] a time when people cared enough about literature and prose styles to get down and dirty with them.' Critical Margins 'In a book that is enjoyable as well as persuasive, Wheatley presents the game of literary feuding as an engrossing spectator sport. [This monograph] is as constructive and passionate as its inspiring feuds. As in Shelley and his Readers, Wheatley demonstrates that literary conflict can differ from other kinds in facilitating creativity.' NBOL 19 'By bringing the reviewer and the poet into the same orbit, Wheatley reveals the remarkable and unexpected ways in which essayists such as Barrow simultaneously waged a long campaign of personal abuse and co-operated with some of canonical Romanticism's central preoccupations. In a book which comments illuminatingly on several contentious aspects of the early nineteenth-century British periodical press, Romantic Feuds demonstrates above all the many and often conflicted ways in which Romantic writers needed reviewers, and vice versa.' Wordsworth Circle '...the scholarship throughout is scrupulous and exhaustive and this is a significant and potentially transformative contribution to an increasingly important area of literary studies.' Review of English Studies 'Wheatley [has] patience and clarity in tracing the twists and turns of these complex and often obscure exchanges. That she has managed to do this in brisk, engaging prose - avoiding the longueurs of summary that plague the study of periodicals - will be welcome to any reader, and should stand as an example to anyone writing on the subject.' European Romantic Review 'Romantic Feuds excels in bringing out the comedy and the contradictions in the battles which it examines. Wheatley's close readings are informed and subtle, employing detailed knowledge to revivify the pleasures of these clashes. ...[This book] make[s] it clear that well-executed new approaches still have the potential to recover a great deal that is interesting, pertinent and valuable.' BARS Review 'Wheatley opens an interesting perspective on the interpenetration of distinct historical moments, challenging habitual modes of periodization. ... a fascinating and helpful guide to a fundamental aspect of Romantic literary culture.' Keats-Shelley Journal 'Kim Wheatley adds significantly and with verve and originality to the work of [David V. Erdman, Paul M. Zall, Kevin Gilmartin, David Stewart, and others].' Modern Language Review 'In this exciting contribution to the study of nineteenth-century periodical culture, Kim Wheatley proposes a daring new mode of organizing and reading periodical discourse. ... Her attentive reconstruction of feuds does a great service to scholars of Romantic periodical culture in that it provides a fuller and more representative archive on which to base research and analysis.' Victorian Periodicals Review

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Kim Wheatley is Associate Professor of English at The College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA.

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