Reviews and Other Publications
James’s review work offers thoughtful critical assessment of recent scholarship in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary studies.
Review of William D. Brewer.
Representing and Interrogating Dueling, Caning, and Fencing During the British Romantic Period. Studies in Romanticism. | Forthcoming 2026
Review of Nicolas Roe, Ed. John Keats and the Medical Imagination and David Stewart, The Role of Poetry in the 1820s and 1830s.
European Romantic Review 30.4 (Autumn) 475-79. | 2019
Review of Eric G. Wilson, How to Make a Soul: The Wisdom of John Keats.
European Romantic Review 28.4 (Autumn) 539-51. | 2017
Review of Jordan Kistler, Arthur O’Shaughnessy, A Pre-Raphaelite Poet in the British Museum.
The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies. 27 (Spring) 97-101. | 2017
“Keats and the Bible.”
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and the Arts. (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press). | 2015
Review of Sara Schulkins, Keats, Modesty, and Masturbation.
The BARS Review. 46. | 2015
Review of James Walter Caulfield, Overcoming Matthew Arnold.
Victorian Studies. 56.2 350-1. | 2014
Review of Mark Goode, Sentimental Masculinity and the Rise of History.
Studies in Romanticism. 53.2 275-7. | 2014
Review of Catherine Robson, Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem and Brian McGrath.
The Poetics of Unremembered Acts: Reading, Lyric, Pedagogy.
European Romantic Review. 25.1. 106-11. | 2014
Review of Mark Lussier, Romantic Dharma: The Emergence of Buddhism into Nineteenth-Century Europe.
Literature and Theology. 28.2 241-3. | 2014
Review of Joan Qionglin Tan, Han Shan, Chan Buddhism and Gary Snyder’s Ecopoetic Way and John Whalen-Bridge and Gary Storhoff, eds.
Writing as Enlightenment: Buddhist American Literature in the Twenty-first Century.
Religion and the Arts 16.5 (2012) 613-6. | 2013
Review of Barbara Crooker, More. Christianity and Literature. 61.2 (Winter) 338-41. | 2012
Review of The Emergence of Buddhist-American Literature, ed. John Whalen Bridge and Gary Storoff.
Religion and the Arts 14.1-2. | 2010
Review of Richard Turley, Keats's Boyish Imagination.
Journal of the History of Sexuality. 18:3 (September 2009): 544-7. | 2009
“David Bergman,” “Henri Cole,” “Charles Demuth,” “J.D. McClatchy,” “William Meredith,” entries in LGBTQ America Today: an Encyclopedia, ed. John Hawley (Greenwood). | 2008
Review of Sarah Wotton, Consuming Keats: Nineteenth-Century Representations in Art and Literature.
Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies. 17 (2008): 106-8. | 2008
Review of Frank M. Turner, John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion.
Victorian Review. 33:1. | 2007
Review of Ben Giamo, Kerouac, the Word and the Way.
Religion and the Arts. 9 | 2005
Review of Lorraine Jantzen Kooistra, Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History and Lynda Palazzo, Christina Rossetti's Feminist Theology.
Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies.13 (Winter) 111-114. | 2004
Review of Cynthia Scheinberg Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England: Jewish Identity and Christian Culture.
Victorian Review. 30:1 (Winter) 100-103. | 2004
Review of Alan Grob, A Longing Like Despair: Arnold's Poetry of Pessimism.
Christianity and Literature 52:4 (Summer) 582-4. | 2003
Review of Ayumi Mizukoshi, Keats, Hunt and the Aesthetics of Pleasure.
European Romantic Review. 14.1 (April) 140-3. | 2003
“J.D McClatchy” and “David Bergman,” entries in Contemporary Gay American Poets and Playwrights, ed. Emmanuel Nelson (Greenwood Press). | 2003
Review of Beth Lau, Keats’s Paradise Lost.
ASECS Online Reviews. | 2001
Review of Alan Bennett, Romantic Poets and the Culture of Posterity.
Romantic Circles Reviews. 4:3. | 2001
Review of Jeffrey C. Robinson, ‘My Ended Poet’: Reception and Poetics in Keats.
European Romantic Review. 11:4 (Fall) 471-5. | 2000
Review of Ellen Tremper, ‘Who Lived at Alfoxton?’: Virginia Woolf and English Romanticism.
Studies in the Novel. 31:4 (Winter) 527-28. | 1999
Review of Ellis Hanson, Decadence and Catholicism; and Rhonda K. Garelick, Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siècle.
Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies N.S. 8 (Fall). | 1999
Review of Nicholas Roe, John Keats and the Culture of Dissent.
European Romantic Review 9:3 430-35. | 1999
Review of Allyson Booth, Postcards from the Trenches.
International Review of Modernism 1:2 (Spring/Summer) 13-15. | 1998
“Edward Irving,” “John Hamilton Reynolds,” and “Sydney Smith.”
The Encyclopedia of Romanticism ed Laura Dabundo. (New York: Garland). | 1992