Author: Charlotte Fiehn
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Morgan, Benjamin, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science
Benjamin Morgan, The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017) 368 pp. £26.00 Pb. ISBN: 9780226462202 Benjamin Morgan’s The Outward Mind: Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature undertakes a compelling and persuasive analysis of the somewhat obscure but nonetheless engaging relationship between aesthetics and science in the Victorian period.…
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Budra, Paul and Clifford Werier (eds), Shakespeare and Consciousness
Paul Budra and Clifford Werier (eds), Shakespeare and Consciousness (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2016) xiv +307 pp. £45.99 PDF, EPUB, £58.00 Hb. ISBN 978-1-137-59671-0 Shakespeare and Consciousness, as the title suggests, explores issues pertaining to the works of William Shakespeare – his dramatic works, in this case – and consciousness, conceived in this study primarily through scientific…
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Bailey, Suzanne, Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry
Suzanne Bailey, Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry (London: Routledge 2010) 200pp. £39.99 Pb, £110.00 Hb. ISBN: 9780415874779 In her study, Cognitive Style and Perceptual Difference in Browning’s Poetry, Suzanne Bailey suggests that Robert Browning suffered from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, more commonly known as ADHD. She uses this hypothesis to explain several…
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Bonikowski, Wyatt, Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction
Wyatt Bonikowski, Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction (Oxford: Routledge 2013) 200pp. £34.99 Pb, £100.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781409444176 Wyatt Bonikowski’s study, Shell Shock and the Modernist Imagination: The Death Drive in Post-World War I British Fiction, makes an extensive investigation of the understanding and representation of…
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Abberley, Will, English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914
Will Abberley, English Fiction and the Evolution of Language, 1850-1914 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2015) 247 pp. $80.00 PDF, £64.99 Hb. ISBN: 9781107101166 Will Abberley’s English Fiction and the Evolution of Language 1850-1914, as the title suggests, explores the development of the English language through fiction, arguing that the influence of fiction on the development…
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Monnet, Agnieszka Soltysik, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic
Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet, The Poetics and Politics of the American Gothic (Farnham: Ashgate 2010) 174 pp. £95.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781409400561 The cover art for Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet’s study elucidates her topic with striking precision. Grant Wood’s American Gothic is an starting point for Monnet’s discussion of the American gothic literary tradition. Much of the introduction maps…
