Month: February 2010

  • Cfp: Interdisciplinary Science Reviews: Poetries and sciences in the 21st Century

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    Call for papers Interdisciplinary Science Reviews ” Poetries and sciences in the 21st Century” This is to invite proposals for contributions to a themed issue of Interdisciplinary Science Reviews on the topic of “ISR Poetries and Sciences CFP”, to be published as volume 39, number 1, March 2014. Reference here to the present century is…

  • Cfp: The Stimulated Body and the Arts: The Nervous System and Nervousness in the History of Aesthetics

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    Call for papers International Interdisciplinary Conference, 17-18 February 2011 Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease, Durham University, UK Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 July 2010 This conference will discuss the history of the relationship between aesthetics and medical understandings of the body. Today’s vogue for neurological accounts of artistic emotions has a…

  • ‘American Maritime People’ Summer Institute

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    There are about three weeks left before the deadline for the NEH Summer Institute to be held at Mystic Seaport (CT, USA) this summer, 21 June to 30 July 2010. Entitled “The American Maritime People,” the institute will pay $4,500 to each participant to defray expenses; there are places available for faculty and graduate students…

  • Holmes, Richard, The Age of Wonder

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    Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (London: Harper Collins, 2008), pp. xxi + 554. £25. ISBN 978-0-00-714952-0 The best feature of this fascinating survey of Romantic science is Richard Holmes’s skill in bringing to utterly believable life the domestic circumstances in which scientific discovery was…

  • Gooday, Graeme, Domesticating Electricity

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    Graeme Gooday, Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880-1914 (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008).  292 pp. £60 hb. ISBN 978 1 85196 580 9. Scholars of the history of technology will be justifiably pleased by this informative survey of the slow but steady progression of electricity from an uncertain and luxurious alternative to generating power…

  • Rudy, Jason R., Electric Meters: Victorian Physiological Poetics

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    Jason R. Rudy, Electric Meters: Victorian Physiological Poetics (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2009). xiii + 222 pp. £40.50 hb. ISBN 0821418823. Electric Meters—the subject of which should not be confused with devices you may (or may not) have fitted to your power mains at home—is an ambitious and welcome addition to the growing field…

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