Talia Schaffer is a professor of English at Queens College, CUNY, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Romance’s Rival: Familiar Marriage in Victorian Fiction (2016), Novel Craft: Victorian Domestic Handicraft and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (2011), and The Forgotten Female Aesthetes: Literary Culture in Late-Victorian England (2001), as well as articles and edited volumes focusing on women’s literature and culture in the 19th century.
Talia Schaffer
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Am I Not a Dragon and a Brother
Here’s what everyone will tell you about the award-winning Temeraire series that Naomi Novik has just completed: it’s the Napoleonic Wars (1803–15)—with dragons. The series has expressive, pitch-perfect writing, glorious steampunk details, and jaw-dropping adventures. Fans of Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey–Maturin novels will relish Novik’s accounts of slashing battles and brilliant military maneuvers taking place both […]










