London and the Making of Provincial Literature: Aesthetics and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1800-1850 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)

"Joseph Rezek's . . . capacity to animate his research and his willingness to let it demonstrate complex, sometimes contradictory movements in literary history are entirely admirable features of this impressive first book."—Times Literary Supplement

"Joseph Rezek's London and the Making of Provincial Literature is a landmark achievement in Atlantic literary studies . . . . Rezek's book deserves the widest possible audience, and should serve as reference point for all scholars of Irish, Scottish, and American literature who are interested in the Atlantic world or the history of the book."—The Wordsworth Circle

"An important and excellent book, of equal interest to specialist readers and to those unfamiliar with the story of how Scottish, Irish, and American literature arose in the shadow of London's literary power. Indebted to Bourdieu but working with a new method of his own, Rezek shows how it is still possible, in an oft visited landscape, to make extraordinary discoveries."—Pascale Casanova, author of The World Republic of Letters