Author: Denise Saul
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Tilley, Heather, Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing
Heather Tilley, Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017) 294 p. £80.00 PDF, £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781107194212 Blindness and Writing: From Wordsworth to Gissing ushers in a new way of understanding ocularcentric constructs of blindness and new writing technologies for blind people during the nineteenth century. Heather Tilley’s study…
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Pourciau, Sarah M, The Writing of Spirit: Soul, System, and The Roots of Language Science
Sarah M Pourciau, The Writing of Spirit: Soul, System, and The Roots of Language Science (New York: Fordham University Press 2017) $16.99 EPUB, $25.00 Pb, $90.00 Hb ISBN: 9780823275625 The Writing of Spirit opens up new directions of thinking about the rise of language science from the eighteenth century into the first half of the…
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Valkeakari, Tuire, Precarious Passages: The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone Fiction
Tuire Valkeakari, Precarious Passages: The Diasporic Imagination in Contemporary Black Anglophone Fiction (Gainesville: University Press of Florida 2017) 344 pp. $84.95 Hb. ISBN: 978-0-8130-6247-1 Precarious Passages makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the diasporic imagination in post-Second-World-War and contemporary black Anglophone fiction. The entry point into Valkeakari’s analysis is a selection of contemporary fiction…
