Author: Elizabeth Askey
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Laroche, Rebecca and Jennifer Munroe, Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory
Rebecca Laroche and Jennifer Munroe, Shakespeare and Ecofeminist Theory (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017) 216 pp. £75.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781472590473. Ecofeminism has emerged as a relatively new feminist theory as part of third-wave feminism. Ecofeminist literary criticism ‘redress[es] inequalities that result not only from dominations that subject women…Others..and non-humans to destructive pratices’ (xvii). Such readings…
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Roe, Nicholas (ed), John Keats and the Medical Imagination
Nicholas Roe (ed.), John Keats and the Medical Imagination (London: Palgrave Macmillan 2017) xviii + 262 pp. EPUB, PDF £56.99, £72 Hb. ISBN: 978-3-319-63810-2 John Keats and the Medical Imagination is a compilation of ten specially commissioned essays based on contributions to the third Keats Bicentenary Conference at Guy’s Hospital, May 2015. The focus of…
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Griffiths, Matthew, The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World
Matthew Griffiths, The New Poetics of Climate Change: Modernist Aesthetics for a Warming World (London: Bloomsbury 2017) 224 pp. £80.00 Hb. ISBN: 9781474282093 Although it is well known that modernist literature did not engage widely in the early days of ecocriticism during the seventies, eighties and nineties, there is now a developed Modernist expression of…
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Offord, Mark, Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel
Mark Offord, Wordsworth and the Art of Philosophical Travel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2016) £64.99 Hb. ISBN: 9781107155589 From its title, Mark Offord’s book appears to offer a unique reworked reading of Wordsworth’s ‘pictures of Nature, Man and Society’ (1) as an art of travel. When Offord allows himself the space in which to directly…
