Nineteenth‐century Literature Criticism. Volume 212. Topics: The American Civil War, Fairy Tales, and Physiognomy

Gale (Cengage) publishes an enormous number of reprinted articles in their critical, biographical and literary reference publications. The volume reviewed here, a large one of 500 A4 pages, is number 212 in the series Nineteenth‐Century Literature Criticism. This series is one of 23 in the Gale Literary Criticism series. Add to these a further forty titles in the Gale biographical and literary sources and you get a measure of the scale Gale's reference publications.

Every fourth volume in the Nineteenth‐century Literature Criticism series is a topic volume rather than the usual author‐based work. The full sub‐title, before we get...