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'The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare, with its rich archive and its definitive intervention in the history of Shakespeare's reception, makes an important contribution to both Victorian and Shakespeare studies. And its significance extends well beyond those fields. For all its apparent specificity of focus, it is an expansive book, addressing essential questions about the relationship between readers and texts. LaPorte brings to his project both great erudition and great open-mindedness; he is unfailingly generous toward the texts he studies, treating them not as mere curiosities but as meaningful testaments to readerly devotion. His reading is, in a word, unsuspicious, without ever being naive, and his book makes clear on every page how rewarding, even revelatory, such a reading can be.' Erik Gray, Nineteenth-Century Literature

'The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare, with its rich archive and its definitive intervention in the history of Shakespeare's reception, makes an important contribution to both Victorian and Shakespeare studies. And its significance extends well beyond those fields. For all its apparent specificity of focus, it is an expansive book, addressing essential questions about the relationship between readers and texts. LaPorte brings to his project both great erudition and great open-mindedness; he is unfailingly generous toward the texts he studies, treating them not as mere curiosities but as meaningful testaments to readerly devotion. His reading is, in a word, unsuspicious, without ever being naive, and his book makes clear on every page how rewarding, even revelatory, such a reading can be.' Erik Gray, Nineteenth-Century Literature 'Highly recommended.' N. Birns, Choice '... this is a book of considerable value in making available texts long overlooked, allowing readers to place them within the larger frames of Victorian clerisy and Shakespearean studies.' Stuart Sillars, Modern Language Quarterly

'The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare, with its rich archive and its definitive intervention in the history of Shakespeare's reception, makes an important contribution to both Victorian and Shakespeare studies. And its significance extends well beyond those fields. For all its apparent specificity of focus, it is an expansive book, addressing essential questions about the relationship between readers and texts. LaPorte brings to his project both great erudition and great open-mindedness; he is unfailingly generous toward the texts he studies, treating them not as mere curiosities but as meaningful testaments to readerly devotion. His reading is, in a word, unsuspicious, without ever being naive, and his book makes clear on every page how rewarding, even revelatory, such a reading can be.' Erik Gray, Nineteenth-Century Literature 'Highly recommended.' N. Birns, Choice '… this is a book of considerable value in making available texts long overlooked, allowing readers to place them within the larger frames of Victorian clerisy and Shakespearean studies.' Stuart Sillars, Modern Language Quarterly

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Charles LaPorte is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington. His Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible (2011) was awarded the Sonya Rudikoff Prize for the best first book in Victorian studies.

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