Publications

2026 Vermeer’s Afterlives Ruth Yeazell · Princeton University Press eBooks · Scholar only — 2025 A Lively Mind: Jane Austen at 250 Ruth Yeazell · NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS · Scholar only — 2023 A Life in Pictures (Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death) Ruth Yeazell · New York Times Book Review — 2023 Johannes Vermeer: Faith, Light and Reflection Ruth Yeazell · NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS · Scholar only — 2023 Laughs and Smiles (Steven Nadler, The Portraitist: Frans Hals and His World) Ruth Yeazell · New York Review of Books — 2023 Life Made Light (Vermeer exhibition, Rijksmuseum, 10 February-4 June 2023; catalog of the exhibition; and two other books about Vermeer) Ruth Yeazell · New York Review of Books · needs review — 2023 Vermeer Ruth Yeazell · NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS · Scholar only · needs review — 2023 Vermeer and the Art of Love Ruth Yeazell · NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS · Scholar only · needs review — 2022 Painting Herself (Jennifer Higgie, The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self Portrait; Natalie Rudd, The Self-Portrait ) Ruth Yeazell · New York Review of Books · needs review — 2022 The Self-Portrait Ruth Yeazell · NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS · Scholar only · needs review — 2022 Vermeer and the Language of Poetry Ruth Yeazell · Raritan — 2021 Dickens’s Multitudes (John Mullan, The Artful Dickens: Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist; A. N. Wilson, The Mystery of Charles Dickens) Ruth Yeazell · New York Review of Books — 2021 Henry James In—and Out of—the Classroom Ruth Yeazell · Daedalus 3 2021 Perspective Ruth Yeazell · The Cambridge Companion to Prose 8 2021 Stealing Vermeer for the IRA (Anthony M. Amore, The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist) Ruth Yeazell · New York Review of Books — 2020 西方文学与视觉艺术: 露丝∙ 伯纳德∙ 叶泽尔访谈录 Ruth Yeazell · 外国文学研究 · Scholar only — 2019 Stardom is Born (Sharon Marcus, The Drama of Celebrity; Susan J. Douglas and Andrea McDonnell, Celebrity: A History of Fame; and Peter Rader: Playing to the Gods: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and the Rivalry that Changed Acting Forever) Ruth Yeazell · New York Review of Books · needs review — 2019 Unnatural Naturalism (Birmingham Museum and Arts Gallery, Victorian Radicals: From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Arts & Crafts Movement, and Susan Owens and Nicholas Tromans, eds., Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art) Ruth Yeazell · New York Review of Books — 2018 Loving Lips (Kathryn Hughes: Victorians Undone: Tales of the Flesh in the Age of Decorum) Ruth Yeazell · New York Review of Books — 2018 Oliver Herford, Henry James’s Style of Retrospect: Late Personal Writings, 1890-1915 Ruth Yeazell · Nineteenth-Century Contexts 0 2017 Henry James’s Portrait-Envy Ruth Yeazell · New Literary History 20 2017 Jane Austen at Home: A Biography Ruth Yeazell · NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS · Scholar only — 2017 Jane Austen, the Secret Radical Ruth Yeazell · NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS · Scholar only — 2017 Remembrance of Things Present in The Ambassadors Ruth Yeazell · The Henry James Review 10 2017 The Making of Jane Austen Ruth Yeazell · NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS · Scholar only — 2017 The Sincerest Form of Flattery (Elizabeth Prettejohn, Modern Painters, Old Masters: The Art of Imitation from the Pre-Raphaelites to the First World War) Ruth Yeazell · NYR Daily — 2017 Which Jane Austen? (four books on or by Jane Austen) Ruth Yeazell · New York Review of Books — 2016 Peaches d’antan (Henry James, Autobiographies, ed. Philip Horne) Ruth Yeazell · London review of books 0 2016 Sargent’s Other Portraits Ruth Yeazell · Raritan 1 2015 Art with a Capital ‘I.’ Ruth Yeazell · Raritan — 2015 Picture Titles: How and Why Western Paintings Acquired their Names Ruth Yeazell · Princeton University Press · needs review 61 2015 What Peggy Did (Francine Prose, Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern) Ruth Yeazell · New Republic — 2015 Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake Ruth Yeazell · RARITAN-A QUARTERLY REVIEW · Scholar only — 2015 Who Owns the Art? Ruth Yeazell · The Yale Review 0 2014 Eliot, George: The Life of George Eliot: A Critical Biography. Ruth Yeazell · Biography · Scholar only — 2014 Growing up with Middlemarch (Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch) Ruth Yeazell · New York Review of Books · needs review — 2014 In What Sense Did He Love Her? (The Complete Letters of Constance Fenimore Woolson, ed. Sharon L. Dean) Ruth Yeazell · London review of books 0 2014 Leo Costello, J. W. W. Turner and the Subject of History Ruth Yeazell · Victorian Studies 0 2013 Kevin Ohi, Henry James and the Queerness of Style Ruth Yeazell · The Henry James Review 0 2013 Marriage (Jennifer Phegley, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England and Ginger S. Frost, Living in Sin: Cohabiting as Husband and Wife in Nineteenth-Century England) Ruth Yeazell · Victorian Review · needs review — 2013 The Power of a Name: In Bruegel’s Icarus, For Instance Ruth Yeazell · Raritan 10 2013 Updating What Maisie Knew (film by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, based on the novel by Henry James) Ruth Yeazell · Los Angeles Review of Books — 2012 Oh!—only Oh! (Fiona MacCarthy, The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination) Ruth Yeazell · London review of books 0 2011 This is Not a Title Ruth Yeazell · The Yale Review 0 2010 Maisie’s Sisters (Erica Hirshler, Sargent’s Daughters: The Biography of a Painting) Ruth Yeazell · London Review of Books — 2010 Rachel Teukolsky, The Literate Eye: Victorian Art Writing and Modernist Aesthetics Ruth Yeazell · Victorian Studies 1 2009 Henry James, The Golden Bowl Ruth Yeazell · Penguin — 2009 I Whine Like a Babe (Susan E. Gunter, Alice in Jamesland: The Story of Alice Howe Gibbens James) Ruth Yeazell · London Review of Books — 2009 The Lighting Design of Hardy’s Novels Ruth Yeazell · Nineteenth-Century Literature 30 2009 Turner’s Titles Ruth Yeazell · Victorian Studies 4