Author: Anna Brunton
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Calvert, Bronwen, Being Bionic: The World of TV Cyborgs
Bronwen Calvert, Being Bionic: The World of TV Cyborgs (London: I. B. Tauris 2017 ) £14.99 Pb. ISBN 978-1-78453-648-0 In Being Bionic, Bronwen Calvert, an associate lecturer with the Open University, begins by introducing us to a famous cyborg example, that of the Borg in the long-running TV series Star Trek. They were first introduced…
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Winston, Jessica, Lawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581
Jessica Winston, Lawyers at Play: Literature, Law, and Politics at the Early Modern Inns of Court, 1558-1581 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2016) 286 pp. £60 Hb. ISBN: 9780198769422 Jessica Winston is both Professor of English and Chair of Department of History at the University of Idaho. This book provides an interdisciplinary link between these two areas…
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Burke, Peter, What Is the History of Knowledge?
Peter Burke, What Is the History of Knowledge? (Cambridge: Polity Press 2016) 160 pp. $19.95 Pb, $59.95 Hb. ISBN: 9780745669830 Peter Burke is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at the University of Cambridge, and has published a large number of books on cultural and intellectual history. What Is the History of Knowledge? is one of…
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Keen, Paul, Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750-1800
Paul Keen, Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2012) 268 pp. £20.99 Pb, $25.00 PDF, £62.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107016675 Paul Keen is Professor of English at Carleton University, with interests in the role of literature in society in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. The book under review…