Volz's treatment of visuality's variant nature makes her work stand out in the larger body of critical work that explores how women novelists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century responded to the culture of patriarchy in their writing. — Kropp, Colleen. Review of Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney, by Jessica A. Volz. Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 54 no. 2, 2021, p. 520-522. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/ecs.2021.0033.

'Volz looks at how these women novelists dealt with questions of gender politics, the Gothic imagination and other "optical allusions" – a compelling read.' 
—Jane Austen’s Regency World Magazine

‘Volz’s perceptive, careful analysis makes her book a valuable resource for readers of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth, and Burney.’ 
—Claire Denelle Cowart, ‘Jane Austen Society of North America’, JASNA (Summer 2019).

'Jessica Volz makes an important contribution to the field of eighteenth-century gender studies. Finally, the "female gaze" is getting her due.'
—Dr Amanda Foreman, historian and bestselling author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire

"This examination of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth, and Burney in terms of the methods of visuality contained in their novels from a vision-centric (or vision-obsessed) period is a welcome contribution to the field of feminist novel studies in general and eighteenth-century novel studies in particular. Visuality focuses clearly on a diverse body of scholarship and offers sharp, thought-provoking close readings to create an appropriate depth and breadth of coverage." — Plante, Kelly. Review of Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney, vol. 32 no. 3, 2020, p. 515-517. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/752680."

"One can use Dr. Volz’s observations in analyzing other Austen characters on our own – Anne Elliot, Admiral and Mrs. Croft, and Henry Tilney, to mention a few. Austen scholars and Austen fans who have delved deeply into her characters’ lives and the history of Regency England will find this book fascinating and a useful reference in their libraries. — Vic Sanborn, https://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2020/05/31/qa-with-dr-jessica-a-volz-author-of-visuality-in-the-novels-of-austen-radcliffe-edgeworth-and-burney/, accessed 09 June, 2020 "

A good starting point [...] for exploring this wide field of research. — Times Literary Supplement, https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/visuality-in-the-novels-of-austen-radcliffe-edgeworth-and-burney-jessica-a-volz-ada-coghen/

‘This wonderful and scholarly book shows us with lively examples how women in the age of Jane Austen were allowed to perceive themselves and how four great women writers responded creatively and spiritually, through their use of the visual imagination in their writing. I read it with huge pleasure.’ —Edward Rutherfurd, bestselling author of Sarum, London, New York and Paris

‘We’ve long understood that late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British culture was structured around seeing and being seen, but it’s taken Jessica Volz’s fine book to reveal how four famed women novelists of the era used visual patterns and cues to promote social change […] Visuality in the Novels of Austen, Radcliffe, Edgeworth and Burney is a compelling study of a surprisingly under-examined set of narrative patterns that have been hiding in plain sight.’—Devoney Looser, Foundation Professor of English, Arizona State University