{"id":102,"date":"2016-02-25T12:59:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T19:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/macscott\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2016-07-11T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T19:15:00","slug":"selected-book-review-excerpts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/macscott\/selected-book-review-excerpts\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Book Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth Kraft, Choice Magazine<\/em> (51.7, March 2014):<\/p>\n

“Clearly written and carefully researched, this book makes an important and transformative argument. Through a lens trained on the image of ‘home,’ MacKenzie elaborates the relationship between novels and writers not usually placed in conversation with one another. Highly recommended.”<\/p>\n

Katie Barclay, Literature and History<\/em> (23.2, Autumn 2014)<\/p>\n

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“Be it Ever So Humble<\/em> is a tour de force. It is intelligent, engaging and stimulating … stirring the reader to think deeply and imaginatively about the implications of its readings and its interpretation of the past.”<\/p>\n

Frances Ferguson, “Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century,” SEL<\/em> (54.3, Summer 2014)<\/p>\n

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“When I’m trying to orient new readers in the field and its current scholarship, the books I’ll tell them to start with are … 6) MacKenzie’s Poverty, Fiction, and the Invention of the Middle-Class Home.<\/em>“<\/p>\n

Adela Pinch, “Recent Studies in the Nineteenth Century,” SEL<\/em> (54.4, Autumn 2014)<\/p>\n

“The chapters of this learned and fascinating book that will be of most interest to nineteenth-century scholars are the chapters on homelessness and incarceration in the works of Ann Radcliffe and Maria Edgeworth, on the dynamics of home and homelessness in William Wordsworth\u2019s Salisbury Plain<\/em> poems and Home at Grasmere<\/em>, and on the situation of Scottish authors\u2014in particular Sir Walter Scott.”<\/p>\n

Helen Metcalfe, Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies<\/em> (39.1, March 2016)<\/p>\n

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“MacKenzie\u2019s study contributes greatly to histories of the home for scholars across the humanities. But for the historian seeking a perspective on the changing literary representations of \u2018home\u2019 and the period\u2019s reconceptualisation of this space, MacKenzie\u2019s persuasive and refreshing study is especially valuable.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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