Announcement: The Marilyn Gaull Book Award

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Previous articleNext article FreeAnnouncement: The Marilyn Gaull Book AwardPDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreIn 2021, the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association inaugurated the Marilyn Gaull Book Award, which is conferred annually in recognition of the most outstanding monograph, biography, or scholarly edition reviewed during the previous year in The Wordsworth Circle, which Marilyn Gaull founded in 1970 and edited through 2019. The prize is awarded to the book that best represents the spirit of wide-ranging inquiry, critical acumen, and enduring influence on the field that Marilyn Gaull always championed. To be eligible for consideration, books must be submitted for review by The Wordsworth Circle, where reviews appear in the fourth issue (Fall) of every volume year. Although there is no formal deadline for receipt of materials, authors are urged to submit their work no later than January 31. Submissions are welcome in all areas of British, European, and North American Romantic studies. The awardee will receive a $2,000 prize and will be recognized at the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association lunch at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association.The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association is pleased to announce the second recipient of the Marilyn Gaull Book Award (2022): Jeffrey N. Cox, for William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic: Contesting Poetry after Waterloo (Cambridge University Press, 2021), reviewed by Kenneth Johnston in The Wordsworth Circle 53.4 (2022): 505–10. The review committee commended Cox’s award-winning study in the following terms:From its cheeky title to its ringing conclusion, William Wordsworth, Second-Generation Romantic by Jeffrey Cox offers a provocative, field-altering assessment of Wordsworth after Waterloo, throwing into relief the networks and relationships hiding in plain sight between Wordsworth and his younger contemporaries. Written with a wry, perceptive sympathy and drawing on Cox’s unparalleled knowledge of early-nineteenth-century publishing circles, this is a timely and, at times, moving book about the challenges of aging, the dynamics of inter-generational tension, and the role of the artist in society. Cox’s book skillfully balances finely detailed close reading with the broader sweep of Romantic print culture and European politics, creating a compelling narrative of Wordsworth as an engaged, sometimes combative, reader of Byron, Shelley, Keats, Hunt, and others. The poet who emerges from this study is in some sense a second “early” Wordsworth, deeply embroiled in the worlds of publishing and politics after Napoleon’s defeat. Beautifully written, brilliantly conceived, and meticulously researched, this volume makes the most persuasive case to date for the importance of the “later” Wordsworth to the study of British Romanticism. Marilyn Gaull would have loved this book. The committee takes great pleasure in awarding the 2022 Marilyn Gaull Award to Jeffrey Cox for William Wordsworth: Second-Generation Romantic.The Wordsworth Circle joins the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association in congratulating Jeffrey Cox on his vital, timely, and award-winning contribution to Romantic studies.To be considered for the Marilyn Gaull Book Award, publications should be sent for review to the Associate Editor, Jacob Risinger:Ohio State UniversityDenney Hall 421164 Annie and John Glenn AvenueColumbus, OH 43210Please address any questions to the editor, Charles Mahoney, at [email protected].Previous recipients of the Marilyn Gaull Award:2021: Andrew Stauffer, Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the Library (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021) Previous articleNext article DetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Wordsworth Circle Volume 54, Number 1Winter 2023 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/725473 © 2023 The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.