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"Cope's engaging, eye-opening study of character in post-Waterloo Britain sheds valuable new light on the evolution of public perceptions of secular figures as citizens struggled to disentangle the fictional from the real and to reconcile the myth-making tendencies of cultural representation with their hunger for luminaries as ""real people.""-- ""Stephen C. Behrendt, University of Nebraska"" In short, it continues to supply new reasons why students of Romanticism or of early Victorian literature ought not neglect those years of ""late Romanticism"" or the ""Reform era,"" since they help clarify so many things that might otherwise have seemed like loose ends. Better still, Cope fillsout that biggerhistorical picture while still doing justice to the idiosyncrasy--the weird, distinctive character--of the period itself.--John Savarese, University of Waterloo ""The Wordsworth Circle 50.4 (Fall 2019 - published January 2020): """

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Jonas Cope is Assistant Professor of English California State University, Sacramento. He has authored several articles including Passive and Dynamic Sincerity in Mary Shelley's Falkner, (The Keats-Shelley Journal 63 (2014): 123-37) and The Mortal Immortal: Mary Shelley's 'Overreachers' Reconsidered (The Explicator 72, no. 2 (2014): 122-26). He is an article reviewer for the journal Pedagogy published by Duke University Press.

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