Month: July 2009

  • Gordon, Rae Beth, Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910

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    Rae Beth Gordon, Dances with Darwin, 1875-1910: Vernacular Modernity in France (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009). 311 pp. £60 hb. ISBN 0754652434. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) Rae Beth Gordon’s Dances with Darwin examines a unique combination of influences including hystero-epilepsy, Darwinism, and a fascination with Africa which conflated in vivid café-concert performances…

  • King, Christa Knellwolf, Faustus and the Promises of the New Science

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    Christa Knellwolf King, Faustus and the Promises of New Science, c. 1580-1730: From the Chapbooks to Harlequin Faustus (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008). 216 pp. £55 hb. ISBN 0754661334. (BSLS members receive a discount on all Ashgate titles) It is one of the most widely acknowledged truths in the Faustus criticism that the dangers of unrestrained curiosity…

  • Conference reminder: Darwin/ Tennyson bicentenary

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    Please note that the Darwin Tennyson and their Readers bicentenary conference takes place on Saturday 17th October 2009 not 17th September.

  • Armstrong, Isobel, Victorian Glassworlds

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    Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Glassworlds: Glass Culture and the Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008). viii + 450pp. £32 hb. ISBN 978-0-19-920520-2. In The Victorians and the Visual Imagination Kate Flint highlights Victorian fascination with the processes and technologies of seeing, with the functionalities of vision as well as with their parallels to the then prevalent modalities of…

  • Darwin on Stage, Darwin in Poetry

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    On Wednesday 8th July at 2 p.m. at the Cambridge Darwin Festival, Kirsten Shepherd-Barr and John Holmes will be interviewing a number of contemporary writers about the impact of Darwin and his ideas on their work. Speakers will include the playwrights Craig Baxter and Peter Parnell and the poets Ruth Padel, John Barnie and Kelley…

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    THE EMBALMER’S BOOK OF RECIPES: a new novel by Ann Lingard Indepenpress   Ann Lingard is a former scientist, and founder of  SciTalk (www.scitalk.org.uk) the free resource that helps fiction-writers to find out about modern science, and meet and talk to scientists; all her own novels have some science and scientists in them, but are…

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