From the Editor

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'The Wordsworth Circle publishes peer-reviewed essays, conference papers, special issues, and an annual review, the fourth number of every volume. The books reviewed reflect the same broad range of topics and interests as the journal: all expressions and ideas, the lives, works, and times relevant to British, European, or American Romanticism, the Near and Far East, anywhere on the planet, in the universe; major and obscure authors, poetry, fiction, essays, editions, letters, diaries, journalism, biography, history, philosophy, art, music, science, polities; textual, literary, social, cultural, political, religious, urban, agricultural, theatrical, oral, and legal history; histories of science, medicine, technology, food, fashion, philosophy, art, music, literacy, language, publication, families, childhood, architecture, crime, translation, the book itself from the invention of writing to the internet, individually or multi-disciplinary: all critical perspectives and their histories--anything that influenced, impinges upon, or expresses any aspect of Romantic studies. In reviewing as many books as possible in descriptive essay reviews by authors with a perspective on and commitment to the field, these review issues connect new books to existing critical conversations, alter critical conversations, and comprise a rare history of the field for the past forty years.

Out of the hundreds published, TWC receives about 100 books a year. While we would like to review all the books that the publishers submit some, according to our reviewers, are not appropriate or reviews arc submitted that are so negative that we wonder why the books were published at all and may not. Represent a professional …