We’re so proud to have received these reviews in April and are always thrilled to read such positive feedback on our titles. Congratulations to our authors who have invested so much time and effort into their work. You can read the full reviews through the links below as well as find the titles on our website. We hope these reviews will inspire you to explore our full catalogues.
Review Highlights
Title: Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Art, Poetry and Female Agency in Victorian Britain edited by Glenda Youde & Robert Wilkes
Review by: Ashley Miller, Albion College
“Pre-Raphaelite Sisters makes a valuable contribution to the field of Pre-Raphaelite studies. Wilkes writes that the volume aspires to be “a starting point for new research and fresh perspectives” on the lives and works of several women of the Pre-Raphaelite movement (15).”
Featured in: Victorian Studies, Volume 66, Issue 4 (2024), pp. 663-64
Link: https://doi.org/10.2979/vic.00198
Title: Aspects of Islamic Radicalization in the Balkans After the Fall of Communism edited by Mihai Dragnea, Joseph Fitsanakis, Darko Trifunovic, John M. Nomikos, Vasko Stamevski and Adriana Cupcea
Review by: Muhammad Asad Latif, Islamia University Bahawalpur, Pakistan
“this edited collection provides an invaluable addition to the body of knowledge on political Islam, radicalization, post-communist transitions, and the political choices that have molded the Balkan region’s current environment.”
Featured in: Journal of Religion in Europe, Volume 17, Issue 4 (2024), pp. 501-03
Link: https://doi.org/10.1163/18748929-bja10114
Title: Entre mélancolie et connaissance: Réception créatrice de Proust en Italie by Roberta Capotorti
Review by: Caterina Palmisano, Università di Siena
“L’enquête ainsi menée nous restitue un tableau de la réception italienne de Proust situé entre la mélancolie due à l’impossible coïncidence entre vie et littérature et la connaissance se dégageant de l’aspect méta-romanesque de l’œuvre proustienne qui permet de concevoir et de confronter de nouveaux modèles épistémologiques.”
Featured in: Acta fabula Revue des parutions, Volume 26, Issue 4 (2025)
Link: https://doi.org/10.58282/acta.19558
Title: Formative Feasting: Practices and Virtue Ethics in Deuteronomy’s Tithe Meal and the Corinthian Lord’s Supper by Michael J. Rhodes
Review by: Gregory Soderberg, BibleMesh Institute, New York
“In this study, Rhodes surveys the Deuteronomic tithe meals of Deuteronomy 14 and the eucharist described in 1 Corinthians 11 from the perspective of ‘formative practices’. This is a richly nuanced and generous treatment that should be of interest to a wide range of scholars, ministry leaders, and interested laypeople.”
Featured in: Evangelical Quarterly: An International Review of Bible and Theology, Volume 95, Issue 2 (2024), pp. 174-76
Link: https://doi.org/10.1163/27725472-09502009
Title: The Boom & The Boom: Historical Rupture and Political Economy in Contemporary British and Chinese Science Fiction by Lyu Guangzhao
Review by: Mengmeng Zhu
“Lyu Guangzhao’s The Boom & The Boom is a groundbreaking exploration of the connections between two mostly contemporaneous booms in British and Chinese sf. […] This is not simply an observation of a historical curiosity; rather, Lyu’s analysis of this convergence provides profound insight into how both booms can be understood as responses to contemporary political and economic shifts— Thatcherism in the United Kingdom and Deng Xiaoping’s reforms in China.”
Featured in: Extrapolation, Volume 66, Issue 1 (2025), pp. 118-20
