BOOK REVIEWS
Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research, the journal of the International-Nineteenth Century Studies Association
The aim of Book Reviews is to place recent publications within a broader context, explaining what important issues are worth the attention of scholars.
Reviews should evaluate strengths, weaknesses, and key and/or novel insights, paying attention to the use of source, methodology and argument in relation to the work’s stated purpose. Reviewers are asked not to provide a book report; that is, a chapter-by-chapter summary of the book. Reviewers should not draw attention to inconsequential typos or occasional awkward writing.
Book reviews are published three times a year in the Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research journal.
For Authors
If you would like to review a book for Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research, please review the list (in the link below) and get in touch with the Book Reviews Editor, Nathan Bossoh.
If you are interested in reviewing a book of your own suggestion (not within the list), please feel free to get in touch with the Book Reviews Editor via email to discuss the potential book. Books suggested must date to within three years from the current year (i.e. for the current year 2025 a book for review can date as far back as 2022 but not 2021).
Contact
Nathan Bossoh, n.k.c.bossoh@soton.ac.uk
Book Review Requirements
- Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page [your
name and affiliation, book title, publisher and year of book publication, price of book,
full book page number, ISBN number]; main text; acknowledgements (if any);
declaration of interest statement (if needed); references (if any). - The preferred referencing style is Chicago endnotes and bibliography.
- Should be between 1000 and 2000 words.
- ANCR is open to receiving books written in non-English languages for potential review, however, all book reviews themselves are to be written in English.
- Files should be submitted to the submission portal as a Word Document and the title
of the file should be as follows: ‘[name]_[title of book]_[year of book]_ANCR
Book Review’.
Author Submission Portal Page Guidance
- Click here, and then click on Go To Submission Site in the green box.
- Next click on Register (assuming you do not already have an account) and fill in the
details (name, email, country, password). - You will need to confirm your email through a link sent to your email account.
- Go back to the submission portal and login (you may have to verify your details at this stage). Then you should be taken to the Submission Creation page. On this page make sure that Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research; journal is in the Submit to section. Select all the relevant boxes below, then select; Book Review; in Article type and go to Start.
- Then the submission portal will take you to the submission questions pages divided across four stages (manuscript, authors, services, preview), fill in the required details and then you can submit your review