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• W4312590967 abstract "Reviewed by: Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation by Clara Dawson, and: Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library by Andrew M. Stauffer Alison Chapman Clara Dawson, Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 238, $77 hardcover. Andrew M. Stauffer, Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), pp. 207, $49.95 hardcover and e-book. Victorian poetry studies is increasingly attuned to the material and conceptual importance of print culture, and these two monographs respond to this critical turn in different ways. Andrew M. Stauffer's Book Traces is an audacious and hugely moving book that addresses the nineteenth-century sentimental culture of reading, inviting us to embrace affect in our own critical practice. In a series of beautifully written chapters, Stauffer offers readings of the book traces left in nineteenth-century poetry volumes, including ownership and gift inscriptions, needles threaded into pages, drawings and notes, pressed foliage, hair and the tracings of hands, and paper ephemera such as dolls' clothes and bookmarks. In many cases Book Traces recovers the specific history of the owners and makes poignant connections between the facts of their lives, their habits of reading, and their remaking of books. Stauffer contends that books make lives and lives make books. His study calls for an awareness of the material particulars of reading and readers' lives, as well as for the urgent preservation of these volumes. Stauffer also makes a compelling case for the relationship between the material format of Victorian poetry volumes, their book traces, and Victorian poetics itself. The fascinating series of close readings offered in Clara Dawson's Victorian Poetry and the Culture of Evaluation is also premised on finding deep [End Page 135] connections between poetry and print culture. Dawson argues that periodical reviews of Victorian poetry volumes have a crucial interrelationship with poetic language, arising out of the same shift toward mass industrial publishing that provides the context to Book Traces. Dawson's rich argument is detailed and wide, and it promises to transform the conventional history of the tension between public and private in Victorian poetry. Book Traces is related to a collaborative digital project directed by Stauffer, to which users submit images and metadata of nineteenth-century book traces from their library's open stacks. These book traces are often discovered during campus visits where teams of students, faculty, and librarians hunt for books with material evidence of their nineteenth-century readers in single copies that Stauffer terms time machines (ch. 3). My own institution hosted a successful event that left my Victorian poetry upper-level students rivetted by their book trace discoveries. Copies of books featured in Book Traces are predominantly North American, typically featuring female readers of a variety of popular British and American poetry editions, such as an 1869 Dutch translation of Alfred Tennyson's Enoch Arden, multiple editions of Jean Ingelow's Songs of Seven and Felicia Hemans's Poetical Works, and an 1891 edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Poems and Ballads. Stauffer argues that the material traces in these fragile books are sites of sociability and reverie, of love and melancholy (3). Repeatedly, Stauffer's way of reading turns to William Wordsworth as a model, especially the Victorian embrace of Wordsworthian epiphanic moments that figure a shared common inner life, where poetic language and print materiality converge in a reader's interactions with cherished poetry books. Chapter 1 centres around three annotated copies of Grigg and Elliot's edition of Hemans's Poetical Works, taking seriously the evidence of the sentiment that Victorian readers valued in her poetry. Stauffer reads those book traces alongside Hemans's well-known poem The Image in Lava, which commemorates the material traces of a dead child in the interior language of the heart. Conceptual connections between instances of book traces and Victorian poetics of sentiment structure the methodological approach overall, so that the poems offer a triangular model of what Stauffer calls sympathetic reading: affective critical interpretation, traces of the nineteenth-century reader's emotive responses to poetry, and the poetic structures of nineteenth-century sentimental poetry..." @default.
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