Imagining Socialism: Aesthetics, Anti-politics, and Literature in Britain, by Mark A. Allison Charlotte Jones enjoys a historical account of radical politics that may have important lessons for today By Charlotte Jones 26 July
Extraterritorial: A Political Geography of Contemporary Fiction, by Matthew Hart Charlotte Jones is fascinated by a study of the places in between and their significance in contemporary fiction By Charlotte Jones 3 December
The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space, by Anna Kornbluh Charlotte Jones is fascinated by a bold attempt to link mathematical innovations with developments in Victorian fiction By Charlotte Jones 13 February
Inventing Tomorrow: H.G. Wells and the Twentieth Century, by Sarah Cole Charlotte Jones enjoys an account of a hugely ambitious writer who challenges many of our assumptions about studying literature By Charlotte Jones 16 January
Born Yesterday: Inexperience and the Early Realist Novel, by Stephanie Insley Hershinow Charlotte Jones enjoys an account of early English fiction exploring what novelists made of their naive unworldly heroines By Charlotte Jones 10 October
Modernist Fraud: Hoax, Parody, Deception, by Leonard Diepeveen Charlotte Jones considers the arguments that much pioneering modernist art and literature didn’t really deserve to be taken seriously By Charlotte Jones 16 May
Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel, by Daniel Wright A study of seemingly irrational romantic feelings reveals much about sexuality in 19th-century literature, finds Charlotte Jones By Charlotte Jones 30 August
Portraits from Life: Modernist Novelists and Autobiography, by Jerome Boyd Maunsell Charlotte Jones is fascinated by an ‘experiment’ that ‘reconstructs the act of remembrance’ and brings its subjects back to life By Charlotte Jones 2 February