Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Nervous Reactions
Joel Faflak · 2004
70/100
👍 Worth It
This is a solid piece of Victorian literary scholarship from SUNY Press that fills a genuine gap — the intersection of Romantic reception and the Victorian preoccupation with nervous excitability is a real and underexplored topic. If you are a graduate student or researcher in this field, the broad contributor list covering Wordsworth through George Eliot makes it a worthwhile addition to the shelf. General readers need not apply.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety90
substance78
craft72
originality75
accuracy78
hype80
age-fit75
human-eye65
Penny’s verdict70
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